http://avalonoftheheart.yuku.com/forums/9 Check in here for News, Information, and Points to Ponder tailored to our interests. Hey! We can also use this space to share and discuss other articles and interviews of interest! ]]> en-us Copyright 2006, Yuku feeds@yuku.com (FeedMaster) webmaster@yuku.com (WebMaster) Sun, 06 Dec 2009 14:11:18 GMT Yuku Feeds 1.0 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss 60 http://static.yuku.com//feed/bypass/images/button-yuku.png http://avalonoftheheart.yuku.com/forums/9 Yuku - free hosted forums and profiles 88 31 {pics-1.1 "http://www.icra.org/ratingsv02.html" l gen true for "http://yuku.com" r (nz 1 vz 1 lz 1 oz 1 cz 1 ) "http://www.rsac.org/ratingsv01.html" l gen true for "http://yuku.com" r (n 0 s 0 v 0 l 0 )) Search Domain q http://yuku.com/search/direct/ http://avalonoftheheart.yuku.com/topic/7276/t/Contrasting-Cultures--Female-Witches--Winning--San-Francisco.html But In Africa Women Are Dying
By Zsuzsanna Budapest & Bobbie Grennier

Yesterday I celebrated my wife's birthday, and we went to see Wicked. This is a highly successful play, musical, it's been to Broadway, and has many companies playing all over the globe.

I was so very pleasantly surprised.

Culturally speaking witches have gained a great friend in this play. The main characters are taken from the Wizard of Oz,... ]]> feeds@yuku.com (Cerredwen) http://avalonoftheheart.yuku.com/topic/7276 Sun, 06 Dec 2009 14:11:16 GMT http://avalonoftheheart.yuku.com/topic/7274/t/Midwinter-Revels--Holidays--Light---solstice-season---time--.html by H. Byron Ballard in Vol. 16 / Iss. 19 on 12/02/2009

"Go Christmas, go Hanukkah, go Kwanzaa, go Solstice!" So shout the brightly clad young models of a current TV commercial, as they leap about the screen like cheerleaders in their stripy sweaters and knitted gloves. Yet another seasonal advertisement by a multinational garment-selling conglomerate. But wait. What are the holidays mentioned in the ad again? Do they really finish their cheer... ]]> feeds@yuku.com (Cerredwen) http://avalonoftheheart.yuku.com/topic/7274 Thu, 03 Dec 2009 22:41:30 GMT http://avalonoftheheart.yuku.com/topic/7267/t/Patrick-Stewart-The-Legacy-Of-Domestic-Violence.html By Patrick Stewart
The Guardian, Friday 27 November 2009

As a child, the actor regularly saw his father hit his mother. Here he describes how the horrors of his childhood remained with him in his adult life

My father was, in many ways, a man of discipline, organisation and charisma - a regimental sergeant major no less. One of the very last men to be evacuated from Dunkirk, his third stripe was chalked on to his uniform by an officer... ]]> feeds@yuku.com (Cerredwen) http://avalonoftheheart.yuku.com/topic/7267 Sun, 29 Nov 2009 00:40:11 GMT http://avalonoftheheart.yuku.com/topic/7253/t/2012-Mayan-Elders-Speak-Related-Info.html A Mayan Elder Speaks On the Mayan Calendar and 2012
By Molly Hall

Editor's Note: This article is from talks given by Mayan priest Carlos Barrios and was distributed by eceti.org. Barrios speaks with urgency from his perspective as part of a culture that studies time. He speaks on earth changes, the power of the dark magicians, and 2012 as a transition, not an end. He has simple words of wisdom to share, so be sure to read the end!

... ]]> feeds@yuku.com (Cerredwen) http://avalonoftheheart.yuku.com/topic/7253 Sat, 14 Nov 2009 01:02:21 GMT http://avalonoftheheart.yuku.com/topic/7248/t/Pagan-Republican-Wins-Election-in-Queens.html By Patti Wigington

In what may have been the first event of its kind, an out-of-the-broom-closet Pagan candidate has won a seat on New York City's city council. Dan Halloran, who is a Theodsman, had a tumultuous candidacy when his opponents tried to link his Heathen belief system to racism and white supremacist groups. Halloran, a Republican, defeated opponent Kevin Kim by about 1300 votes.

While I wouldn't go as far as to say this is... ]]> feeds@yuku.com (Cerredwen) http://avalonoftheheart.yuku.com/topic/7248 Wed, 11 Nov 2009 22:42:37 GMT http://avalonoftheheart.yuku.com/topic/7237/t/Student-Expelled-for-Casting-a-Spell.html High School Expels Student for Casting a Sickening Spell

Oklahoma City, Oct. 28-- An Oklahoma high school suspended a 15-year-old student after accusing her of casting a magic spell that caused a teacher to become sick, lawyers for the student said on Friday.

The American Civil Liberties Union said it had filed a lawsuit in the U.S. District Court in Tulsa, Oklahoma, on behalf of student Brandi Blackbear, charging that the assistant principal... ]]> feeds@yuku.com (Cerredwen) http://avalonoftheheart.yuku.com/topic/7237 Fri, 30 Oct 2009 22:24:48 GMT http://avalonoftheheart.yuku.com/topic/7236/t/School-Says-Halloween-Disrespectful-to-Witches.html District Bans a Planned Celebration, Calling It a Waste of Time

A Washington state school district is canceling its annual Halloween celebration, and the explanation has some parents baffled.

"Let them have their 30 minutes of dressing goofy and having candy," Silas Macon, a father of two school-age girls, said Wednesday outside Maplewood Elementary School after learning that the grade-school tradition of a party and parade in... ]]> feeds@yuku.com (Cerredwen) http://avalonoftheheart.yuku.com/topic/7236 Fri, 30 Oct 2009 22:18:29 GMT http://avalonoftheheart.yuku.com/topic/7235/t/Real-Witches-Practice-Samhain--Americans--Wiccan---Celebrate.html Wicca on the Rise in U.S.
By Russell Goldman

Patti Wigington is a soccer mom. She is the vice president of her local PTA.
And she's a witch.

This Saturday while her neighborhood outside Columbus, Ohio, is crawling with costumed witches in search of candy, Wigington and a group of other local witches will not be celebrating Halloween, but the new year festival Samhain, which also occurs Oct. 31.

In her backyard,... ]]> feeds@yuku.com (Cerredwen) http://avalonoftheheart.yuku.com/topic/7235 Fri, 30 Oct 2009 21:59:32 GMT http://avalonoftheheart.yuku.com/topic/7234/t/Blessed--Ted-Ted-Andrews-1952-2009-Acclaimed-author--Animal-.html Blessed Be, Ted

Ted Andrews passed to another world Saturday, October 24th, after a long battle with cancer.
Ted was a good friend, a good author and an inspiration.

Some people have a natural charisma, and Ted had that but it was his self-honesty and sincerity that brought him a loyal following. Ted's success never went to his head. He remained forever true to his inner convictions and was devoted to using the medium of his books... ]]> feeds@yuku.com (Cerredwen) http://avalonoftheheart.yuku.com/topic/7234 Wed, 28 Oct 2009 23:14:10 GMT http://avalonoftheheart.yuku.com/topic/7232/t/Near-stadium-Cowboys-have-a-new-rival-Satan.html By BUD KENNEDY

ARLINGTON - A wee bit o' Scotland has come to the outskirts of Cowboys Stadium, and with it a foggy auld controversy over whether a Scottish sculpture park is also a pagan shrine that might hex the Dallas Cowboys.

City leaders and the family of late philanthropist Jane Mathes Kelton gathered Thursday to rededicate Caelum Moor, a former $3 million corporate sculpture park now relocated as public art along the bonny banks of... ]]> feeds@yuku.com (Cerredwen) http://avalonoftheheart.yuku.com/topic/7232 Sun, 25 Oct 2009 23:57:30 GMT http://avalonoftheheart.yuku.com/topic/7229/t/True-Spirit-of-Halloween-haunted-by-profits-.html By Jessica Krinke

While Halloween has become arguably the most commercial party holiday of modern American culture, does it warrant an entire Hallow-weekend? One costume company thinks so.

Spirit Halloween, owners of many Halloween stores that vanish as mysteriously as they materialize in strip malls across America come Nov. 1, has launched a proposal to permanently change the date of All-hallows Eve to the last Saturday in October instead of... ]]> feeds@yuku.com (Cerredwen) http://avalonoftheheart.yuku.com/topic/7229 Thu, 22 Oct 2009 00:08:01 GMT http://avalonoftheheart.yuku.com/topic/7226/t/Speak-Your-Piece-Selling-Indian-Spirituality.html New Age shamanism leads to three deaths in Arizona. But distortion of Native American spiritual practices is not "new."
By Mary Annette Pember

Tom Tingle/Arizona Republic Three people died after participating in a large for-profit sweat lodge ceremony near Sedona, Arizona. The recent tragic deaths of two people inside a sweat lodge at Angel Valley near Sedona, Arizona, ( feeds@yuku.com (Cerredwen) http://avalonoftheheart.yuku.com/topic/7226 Wed, 21 Oct 2009 22:09:04 GMT http://avalonoftheheart.yuku.com/topic/7223/t/Lakota-Pipekeeper-39-s-Statement-Concerning-Sedona-quot-Swea.html Lakota Elder Speaks on Sedona Deaths

Chief Arvol Looking Horse is the 19th Generation Keeper of the Sacred White Buffalo Calf Pipe Bundle, and a well-known elder of the Lakota people. He recently made a statement to the Rapid City Journal about the deaths of three people in a sweatlodge ceremony in Sedona, Arizona. Chief Arvol Looking Horse goes into great depth describing the history of the ceremony -- which is intended as a purification ritual -- and... ]]> feeds@yuku.com (Cerredwen) http://avalonoftheheart.yuku.com/topic/7223 Mon, 19 Oct 2009 18:13:12 GMT http://avalonoftheheart.yuku.com/topic/7222/t/Oh-Just-Stop-It-Please.html By Patti Wigington

Particularly around this time of year, the mainstream media manages to conjure up a lot of articles about Wicca, Paganism, witchcraft, and whatnot. Inevitably, they always manage to find someone who claims to be THE KING OF ALL WITCHES. Take, for example, Magus Lynius Shadee of Cambridge, who claims to be the King of All Witches, and who says he's let loose a demon in the local Catholic church. Or Kevin Carlyon, who appears... ]]> feeds@yuku.com (Cerredwen) http://avalonoftheheart.yuku.com/topic/7222 Sat, 17 Oct 2009 23:22:23 GMT http://avalonoftheheart.yuku.com/topic/7191/t/Witch-Gets--Fashion-Makeover----Wear-Comes--Salem--Film-S.html What Not to Wear in Salem
By Patti Wigington

One of my secret little guilty pleasures is the TLC show What Not to Wear, featuring Stacy London and Clinton Kelly. If you haven't seen it, Stacy and Clinton travel around the country, giving fashion makeovers to people whose friends and family have nominated them as... well, needing a bit of assistance in the appearance department. Here's why I like Stacy and Clinton. Their idea of a... ]]> feeds@yuku.com (Cerredwen) http://avalonoftheheart.yuku.com/topic/7191 Tue, 22 Sep 2009 21:52:55 GMT http://avalonoftheheart.yuku.com/topic/7190/t/Oh---Wiccans--Moving---porch-application--leads--Wiccan-chur.html By Patti Wigington

From the "Not in My Neighborhood Pleez" files, we have a case out of Shelton, Connecticut, in which a resident has asked for a variance on his front porch, leading other people on his street to worry that there might be some of them thar Wiccans hanging around.

Robert de Maille von Schmidt has a house under construction, and he has applied for a variance to construct a front porch on his house that complies with... ]]> feeds@yuku.com (Cerredwen) http://avalonoftheheart.yuku.com/topic/7190 Tue, 22 Sep 2009 21:24:38 GMT http://avalonoftheheart.yuku.com/topic/7183/t/Law-offers-less-protection-for-American-Indian-sites.html Sacred Sites Not Always Protected
Tuesday September 8, 2009

A couple of weeks ago, we discussed a Native American mound in Alabama that was once scheduled to be used as fill dirt underneath a new Sam's Club. Now the Anniston Star has an in-depth follow-up to the story, in which it's revealed that the law really doesn't offer much protection at all to Alabama's Native American sites.

In fact, officials the Alabama... ]]> feeds@yuku.com (Cerredwen) http://avalonoftheheart.yuku.com/topic/7183 Tue, 15 Sep 2009 13:57:41 GMT http://avalonoftheheart.yuku.com/topic/7173/t/Marion-Weinstein-May-19-1939--July-1-2009-Beloved-Witch-Teac.html Marion Weinstein (1939-2009)

News has reached us that author, teacher, radio-show host, comedian, and proud New York Witch Marion Weinstein passed away on July 1st, 2009. Weinstein is probably best known by many Pagans as the author of "Positive Magic", which was first published in 1978 and soon became a beloved classic among women and men awakening to religious Witchcraft. She went on to write several more books, and give talks and workshops... ]]> feeds@yuku.com (Cerredwen) http://avalonoftheheart.yuku.com/topic/7173 Fri, 11 Sep 2009 21:30:59 GMT http://avalonoftheheart.yuku.com/topic/7171/t/Lady-Liberty-League-Action-Alert-UPHOLD-PAGAN-RIGHTS-9-12-09.html Please circulate widely:
Thursday, September 10, 2009

UPHOLD PAGAN RIGHTS at September 12 Celebrating Earth Spirituality Festival

On Saturday, September 12, 2009, the Celebrating Earth Spirituality Festival will be held from 10 am - 6 pm at Stroudtburg Village, an oldtime European-styled hamlet shopping area in Adamstown, Pennsylvania. A schedule of Festival activities and other info is on-line:
feeds@yuku.com (Cerredwen) http://avalonoftheheart.yuku.com/topic/7171 Thu, 10 Sep 2009 22:57:03 GMT http://avalonoftheheart.yuku.com/topic/7144/t/Far--Devil-Worship--Harry-Potter-Young-Witches-Explain----Re.html These young witches' beliefs include respect for nature, equality of the sexes and karma.
By Alex Mar

MISSOULA, Montana - On any given day in this city, on the main drag of sporting-goods shops and sleepy cafés, you may be surprised to pass a tall young man in a black trench coat and black lace gloves, his eyes painted purple. Raven Digitalis (born Colin Smith), 24, with his towering figure, pale face and goth style, could easily be mistaken... ]]> feeds@yuku.com (Cerredwen) http://avalonoftheheart.yuku.com/topic/7144 Tue, 04 Aug 2009 21:53:15 GMT