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House of Danu Lughnasadh Festival weekend (July 30 to August 2), Santa Cruz mountains north of Watsonville. 2nd Annual Gorsedd. All Bards, Ovates, Druids and Neopagans welcome!
In October 2009, Isaac Bonewits was diagnosed with cancer—he has a good prognosis but feels crappy due to treatments. Send Isaac and Fay prayers, healing vibes and cash.
from Storycatcher (click)
pages 18-19
written by Christina Baldwin
of Peerspirit, Washington,
reprinted here with author's permission
I have read a story of a tribe in southern Africa called the Babemba in which a person doing something wrong, something that destroys the delicate social net, brings all work in the village to a halt. The people gather around the "offender," and one by one they begin to recite every thing he has done right in his life: every good deed, thoughtful behavior, act of social responsibility. These things have to be true about the person, and spoken honestly, but the time-honored consequence of misbehavior is to appreciate that person back into their better part of himself. The person is given the chance to remember who he is and why his important to the life of the village.
I want to live under such a practice of compassion. When I forget my place, when I lash out with some private wounding in a public way, I want to be remembered back into alignment with my self and purpose. I want to live with the opportunity for reconciliation. When someone around me thoughtless or cruel, I want to be given the chance to respond with a ritual that created the possibility of reconnection. I want to live in a neighborhood where people don't shoot first, don't sue first, where people are Storycatchers willing to discover in strangers the mirror of themselves. I want to be surrounded by a story-based culture that itself remembers story is essential to human survival.
Screenreader Organizations and Teachers
Organizations, Teachers & Festivals
of Druidry, Paganism, Witchcraft & Faerie/Feri
in our region (Northern & Central California)
compiled by Larzean
2 January 2010
Annwfn Pagan retreat center: Mendocino County
Zsuzsanna Budapest: Berkeley, Contra Costa County
Central California Pagan Yahoo Group: Merced, Madera, Fresno, King, Tulare & Kern Counties
Circle of the Sacred Feathers: Hollister, San Benito County
Community Seed: Santa Cruz County
Thorn Coyle: San Francisco; musician, lecturer
CUUPS, Circle of the Heart's Delight: San Jose, Santa Clara County; Unitarian-Universalist
Doire Brighid OBOD Druid Grove: East Bay
Karen Ehrenfeldt, OBOD Druid: San Jose, Santa Clara County; teacher, artist
Fellowship of Druidism for the Latter Age (FoDLA): Redwood City, San Mateo County
Flower Essence Society: Nevada City, Nevada County; fesflowers.com
Foundation for Shamanic Studies: Mill Valley, Marin County
Full Circle News Blog: San Jose, Santa Clara County
Fresno Druid (Llwyn Swynedig OBOD Seed Group): Fresno County; facebook
House of Danu Druid: all over Northern California; north East Bay as center
Indian Canyon: south of Hollister, San Benito County; Native American Costanoan Indian Territory
Integrated Healing Arts: Palo Alto, north Santa Clara County; holistic, alternative medical group
Kemetic Institute: Gilroy, south Santa Clara County
Kuthumi: Gilroy, south Santa Clara County
Manannan mac Lir OBOD Druid Grove: San Francisco, East Bay & North Bay
Marshall Creek Center: Ben Lomond, Santa Cruz County; shamanist
Monterey Bay Area Pagans Yahoo Group: Monterey County
M. Macha NightMare: Berkeley, Contra Costa County
One Earth, One People: San Juan Bautista, San Benito County; Native American
Pagan Alliance: San Francisco; East Bay
Palo Alto Area Pagan Meetup: Palo Alto, Santa Clara County
PantheaCon: San Jose, Santa Clara County; Pagan festival every February
Phoenix Fire (Fire Family Gathering): Santa Cruz County
Evelie Delfino Såles Posch, musician: Berkeley area, Contra Costa County
Reclaiming: San Francisco; East Bay; North Bay; Peninsula; other chapters
Reformed Druids of Gaia: roughly Humboldt County; RDNA
Renaissance Faire: Gilroy, south Santa Clara County
San Jose Circle: San Jose, Santa Clara County
San Jose Pagan/Magickal Meetup: San Jose, Santa Clara County
San Jose Scottish Rite: San Jose, Santa Clara County; open-minded; not specifically Pagan
SCA-Society for Creative Anachronism "Barony of Darkwood": San Jose, Santa Clara County
Slowplayers: all over San Francisco Bay Area; Celtic musicians
Spark Collective: Oakland; Santa Cruz; south of Yosemite
Starhawk: Berkeley, Contra Costa County
Starr King Seminary: Berkeley, Contra Costa County; Unitarian-Universalist ministry
Stone City Pagan retreat center: east of San Jose in mountains of Santa Clara County's Diablo Range
Sweat Lodge Meetup: Boulder Creek, Santa Cruz County