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Pagan Fellowship Notes: Week of August 9, 2021

By Michelle E. Wurth
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BOSCASTLE, Cornwall – The Museum of Witchcraft and Magic announced last week that it had “broken the internet” when it released tickets for purchase for the coming week. The demand for tickets was so great that it exceeded the available bandwidth of the museum’s host servers and crashed not just the booking pages but the entire website.

The museum reopened to personal visitors in May after it was closed and has only put tickets on sale for a week at a time to cope with the number of people in the museum and to stay within the safety limits of the health and safety agency’s risk assessment guidelines during the pandemic . Under normal conditions, the museum allows booking options for the entire summer.

England and Wales had also just experienced a ‘pingdemic’ as most restrictions were lifted on July 19th and more people were interacting and traveling.

The term “Pingdemic” refers to anyone notified by the National Health Service’s COVID-19 alert system who ping their phones and mobile devices because they may have come into contact with someone who has tested positive. Anyone pinged by the app will be instructed to self-isolate for 10 days.

The effect of the “pingdemik” was that a large part of the labor force, in some cases nearly 20%, was asked to self-isolate, further crippling the country’s financial recovery.

The museum will now put the tickets on sale on Thursdays or Fridays at an unspecified time in the hopes of avoiding future disruptions and allowing them to coordinate with staff availability.

According to the museum, “the exact time will remain a secret and just another well-kept secret at the Museum of Witchcraft and Magic!”

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AGIA ANNA, Greece – The raging forest fires in Greece have hit Evia Island, home to a horse and donkey sanctuary, Ranch-Eros Farms. Horses for Hekate, a newly formed Facebook group, aims to help the sanctuary by raising funds.

Tara Sanchez, a Gardnerian witch, as well as a practitioner of a variety of other magical disciplines, wrote a blog post: The rite of Hecate Eurippa – an answer to the Greek forest fires, Call to action to save the horses at Ranch Eros Farms. Sanchez sketched her experience of learning about the horse crisis on Evia Island in the mail and how quickly things came together to respond.

During her weekly shopping spree, Sanchez wrote: “There was a key in the bathroom. I never ignore a key if it happens to appear in my life, especially not one as bizarre as a small brass key in the middle of Aldi. “

She took the key as a message from Hecate, and it was soon followed by a phone call from another priestess asking if Sanchez could help spread the word about ranch eros. She wrote and published a Dark Moon ritual in addition to setting up the Facebook page and the fundraising page.

So far, they have raised nearly £ 1000, double their original goal. The fate of Ranch-Eros Farms is uncertain as there are still active fires in the area and they may be forced to evacuate, although it is unclear whether this will affect some or all of the animals.

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CLEVELAND – A new exhibition is expected on August 17th at Buckland Museum of Witchcraft and Magic in Cleveland, Ohio, in collaboration with the Stephen Romano Gallery in Brooklyn. The exhibition, titled Beyond the Pleasuredome: The Lost Occult World of Burt Shonberg, marks the first time in over 50 years that Shonberg’s art has been shown.

Shonberg is perhaps best known for the artwork he created for the Roger Corman films “House of Usher” (1960) and “Premature Burial” (1962), both based on Edgar Allen Poe stories. He also created art for California bands like Spirit and Love and illustrations for science fiction magazines like Forrest J Ackerman’s F.Amous Monsters of Filmland.

He was also linked to the artist and occultist Marjorie Cameron, and it is likely that she was the person who introduced him to the works of Aleister Crowley. Shonberg is also known to have participated in the experiments on the effects of LSD on the creative mind carried out by Dr. Oscar Janiger, an experimental psychiatrist and professor at the University of California Irvine.

Exhibition curator Brian Chidester wrote an article for LA Weekly 2015: “… Shonberg was too alien, even for the Californian sci-fi world of the 1960s, and too far removed from the art world to be accepted by either of them. Even today, when radical views are the order of the day in the art world, Shonberg still needs recognition. Meanwhile, a unique work remains hidden within sight. “

In 1958, Shonberg and his friend George Clayton Johnson’s television writer and folk singer Doug Myres opened Café Frankenstein, a beatnik coffee house, in Laguna Beach, California. Some of the paintings in the exhibition in Buckland come from Café Frankenstein.

The Shonberg exhibition runs until November 1st, 2021.

Crossings of the Veil

Judy Hall – November 25, 1943 – August 5, 2021

Judy Hall, an internationally known author, energy healer and astrologer who was mentored by Christine Hartley (colleague and literary agent at Dion Fortune), passed the veil last Friday after a long illness.

Hall holds a B.Ed. in Religious Studies and an MA in Cultural Astronomy and Astrology from Bath Spa University. She specialized in past life reading and regression; Soul healing, reincarnation, astrology and psychology, fortune telling and crystal science. She studied with Howard Sasportas and took an intuitive approach to her interpretations of astrological horoscopes.

Hall is perhaps best known for her bestselling books on crystals. The Crystal Bible, Vol. 1-3, The crystal zodiac, The ultimate guide to crystal lattices, and their last publication, Judy Hall’s complete crystal workshop. She has been a prolific writer with over 45 titles spanning a variety of topics relating to the mind, body, and spirit, translated into 16 languages.

In 2014, Hall was listed as Kindred Spirit, Mind Body Spirit Personality of the Year, and four times by Watkins’ Spiritual 100 as one of the most influential spiritual writers alive.

Hall is fondly remembered, as evidenced by the deluge of posts on social media platforms, many of whom talk about how their work has changed their lives and their approach to spiritual practices.

What is remembered lives!

In other news:

    • An upcoming comedy, King Knight, written and directed by Richard Bates Jr., premiered on August 8th at the Fantasia Film Festival. The synopsis of the film: “KING KNIGHT is an outsider comedy starring Matthew Gray Gubler and Angela Sarafyan as Thorn and Willow, husband and wife high priest and priestess of a coven in a small California community. When Willow reveals a secret from Thorn’s past, her life turns into a turmoil in this insane, clever tidbit, adorned with a ferocious cast that includes Nelson Franklin, Johnny Pemberton, Barbara Crampton, Ray Wise, Andy Milonakis and the Voices of Aubrey Plaza and AnnaLynne McCord. “A full release date has not yet been announced.
    • Indian Mounds Park in St. Paul, Minnesota will now feature new signage to help visitors to the park understand the area’s indigenous heritage. Some of the message signs will read, “This is a burial site, and our ancestors are still here. You are in a cemetery. It’s a sacred burial site that has been here for thousands of years. ”The original signs that identified the mounds as the work of the mound builders of the Hopewell tradition excluded the Dakota tribes. Crystal Norcross, Oyate Hotanin’s board chair and community organizer, was part of a cultural landscape study that was being conducted to assess and realign the park’s message and purpose. “To be able to see it and know that they can come here and hold ceremonies comfortably is rare in a city that does that. It is a first for the city of St. Paul to work with tribes, the Dakota community and neighbors, ”said Norcross.

    Worth mentioning on the positive side

    The closing ceremony of the Tokyo Olympics 202o used a little visual magic that was just mind blowing. The light show was created by the Montreal-based company Moment Factory and is designed to represent all countries and individual athletes coming together as a unit.

    It was only broadcast on television and was created with special effects. Attendees couldn’t see it unless they were watching the event on a mobile device. It is unlikely that this type of technological display would have been used if it had been for a normal Olympic Games with a paying audience.

    “Together, these lights rise into a glowing wave – they represent the Olympic spirit that lives within us all. As these lights fly over the stadium, we remember the many people who made the Olympics possible near and far, as well as those who couldn’t be here today, ”said the Olympic organizers.

    Tarot of the week by Star Bustamonte

    Deck: Tarot confidante, by Lisa Parker, published by Lo Scarabeo / Llewellyn Publications.

    Map: Queen of the Cups

    This week may have elements of practicality and honesty that may not be immediately apparent. Look for advice that is offered altruistically.

    Conversely, beware of the functions of vice and those who are inconsistent in matters of honor, and play quickly and freely with the truth.

    Decks generously made available by Asheville Pagan Supply.


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