Presented
by... NATURES MAGICK ONLINE SHOPPE
Out of courtesy to others and our
lecturers, no food, alcohol or smoking is permitted inside the Lecture
Marquee.
| FRIDAY |
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| 3pm |
Gates Open for Weekend Campers
- Registering
On arrival, you will be directed to the registration
office to check in and be shown where to set up your weekend
camp. If you wish to arrive earlier please just let us
know in advance. |
| 5pm - 6.30pm |
BBQ
A general get together on the first evening.
BBQ and gas will be supplied. Bring your own everything
else ! |
| 7.00pm |
Festival Orientation -
Meet and Greet
Meet the Festival organisers
and the volunteers. A quick chat on what to expect at
the festival over the weekend. |
| 7.30pm |
Quiz
A bit of
fun for all! A chance to meet & mingle with fellow
festival goers in a relaxed atmosphere. Bring your own
refreshments and pens. Answer forms provided. Mystery
Prizes to be won !!! Gold coin donation - all proceeds
to our 2010 Festival charity. |
| 9pm |
Opening Ceremony
Frances
Billinghurst and Ramsey
Dukes
C ome join us for the Opening Ceremony. Please arrive
PROMPTLY or you may find you are not granted access
to the circle once the ceremony has commenced. For Weekend
Campers only! |
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| SATURDAY - LECTURES 1 |
SATURDAY - LECTURES 2 |
| 9am |
Gates Open for Day Visitors |
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| 9am |
NZ Medicinal Herbs
Wendy
Illing (NZ)
It's surprising how many medicinal herbs
can be found amongst your common garden plants or weeds
- right in your own backyard!! In this lecture, we will
look at the safe identification of plants and how to utilise
their inherent powers as well as exploring how to make
tea's, infusions and oils.
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9.30 |
Revel and Ritual: Pagan performance
across Europe
Ben Whitmore (NZ)
Morris dancing and Mummers plays are recent
inventions having absolutely nothing to do with paganism,
which died out a thousand years ago. Or so some historians
would have us believe. But there is another side to
their history, which connects with similar traditions
weaving through fairy lore, the cult of the dead, goddess
worship and ecstatic fertility magic across Europe.
The European magical performance traditions are a vital
and much overlooked key to understanding historical
witchcraft and paganism as they survived to a late period,
and they have just as much relevance today for invigorating
our spiritual paths ahead. |
| 10am |
The Book of the Law and the Current of Thelema
Tim
Paling (NZ)
O.T.O. (Ordo Templi Orientis, or Order of
the Temple of the East) was the first of the great Old
Aeon orders to accept The Book of the Law and begin working
with the magical current of Thelema. Tim Paling presents
a discussion about the order and its high purpose of securing
the Liberty of the Individual and his or her advancement
in Light, Wisdom, Understanding, Knowledge, and Power
through Beauty, Courage, and Wit, on the Foundation of
Universal Brotherhood.
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10.30 |
'One hour in Time'
A Past Life mini workshop
Murray Langham (NZ)
Accessing your reincarnational process is a
very powerful tool for self-transformation. This can
be useful for: understanding this life time in view of
other lives, answering relationship questions, releasing
barriers
to your present life. This small workshop is designed
to show you the possibilities of understanding your
past life with fun and enjoyment. Astral travel and
the Body of Light will be touched on but these need
a weekend in them selves!
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| 11am |
Cord Magick
Frances Billinghurst
(AUS)
The use of cords within ritual is manifold, from the
practical (belting a robe) to their use in magick for
spell casting, energy storing and even initiation. Within
this presentation, not only will the above be explained
but also a practical demonstration of how to make your
own cord, tailor-made for your own specific purpose at
a cost of less than a ball of wool.
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11.30 |
The Boomwhacker Workshop
Neil Jourdon (SA)
The Boomwhacker Workshop
Come a join Neil for an energetic and fun session of rhythmic
melody. Using the Boomwhackers we will create a tapestry
of sound. You don't have to be musical to join in so all
are welcome. The Boomwhackers are melodically tuned brightly
coloured plastic tubes. They are played by tapping the
Boomwhacker, held in one hand, against your other hand.
Neil has been facilitating Boomwhacker rhythm sessions
for the past 4 years with participants of all ages, from
4 to 84 years old. If you have never seen, heard or played
Boomwhackers before then this is a must! |
| 12 noon |
LUNCH |
12 noon |
LUNCH |
| 1pm |
A Short History of Witches,Witchunts and
the Persistence of Traditional Beliefs in the Modern
World
Riell Greyeyes (HUN)
A short but detailed look on how European witches, their
nature and gender as well as malevolent witchcraft beliefs,
was perceived in medieval world; the reasons for witchunts
and its global nature in some of the major religions,
witchcraft beliefs in the world today, and persecution
of witches in the 21st century.
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1.pm |
Practical Power Raising
Bob Lapworth (UK)
The processes involved in the raising of
power are essential ingredients to most forms of spiritual
and magical workings. This workshop will cover such aspects
as Personal power and energy, the theory of power raising,
how power is raised, power raising itself and various
control techniques.
THIS WILL BE A 2 HOUR WORKSHOP!
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| 2pm |
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2pm |
Practical Power Raising with
Bob Lapworth continues .... |
| 3pm |
Lecture - Magic, Religion and the Quest for
Meaning
Ramsey Dukes (UK)
For many people religion begins as a search for
Meaning. Science goes further, hunting meaning to the
kill and serving it up as Truth. That's the way of the
hunter-gatherer, and it has severly depleted life's
richness. Magic and art are the way of the agriculturist.
In magic you plant seeds of meaning and help them grow
- the piece of crystal becomes a power object, regular
ritual transmutes a clump into a sacred grove - just
as the artist transforms inert matter into universal
truths. The world needs magic to re-seed it. Let's see
how we can fertilise our life and rituals with this
understanding, and re-populate the world with Meaning.
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3pm |
NO WORKSHOP
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| 4pm |
Alexandrian Craft: The Training and Work
of a Witch
Murray
Lucis (NZ)
Is witchcraft being watered down? As covens
change should the training? What does it take to be
a witch today? What does witchcraft mean in this day
and age? What are Circles for? Murray argues that out
of the worship the Goddess and God, magic happens. Murray
believes that working and training together helps psychic
and magical development, and that working with the masculine
and the feminine energies through ritual develops the
ability to see the Goddess in all females and the God
in all males. Murray will be using Tarot Keys The Magician
and The High Priestess to link our consciousness to
the deeper levels within ourselves. The linkage to these
mysteries is such a privilege. Are you ready for this
path? |
4pm |
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| 5pm |
Stalls close
Festival
closes to Day Visitors |
5pm |
Stalls close
Festival
closes to Day Visitors |
| 6pm |
Feast - Optional - see Feast
page for cost. Spit Roast Feast
- BYO Refreshments |
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| 8.00pm |
Ritual - To be Advised
Please see Rituals
page for full details. |
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| 8.30pm |
Pagan Dance Party (UK)
Visiting DJ Dru ID will be wowing us with
his pagan sounds !!!! |
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| SUNDAY - LECTURES 1 |
SUNDAY - LECTURES 2 |
| 9am |
Gates Open for Day Visitors |
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| 10am |
Living Wicca and Working with
the Charge of the Goddess
Cian MacFhiarais (NZ)
Cian will discuss from a Traditional Wiccan
perspective the importance of putting the spirituality
and principles of the Craft into practice in everyday
life. We will then listen to a recording of Alex Sanders
reciting the Charge of the Goddess, one of the most
well known pieces of ritual poetry written by Doreen
Valiente. It will then be shown how by meditating on
and ritually working with eight key words or concepts
emphasised in the Charge (Beauty, Strength, Power, Compassion,
Honour, Humility, Mirth (and Reverence) the witch may
gain a greater insight into their own nature, create
greater
balance and equilibrium in their life and form a closer
magical connection to the gods. Ideas for utilising
these concepts in personal ritual work will also be
discussed as a group. |
10.30 |
Three Realms, Three Cauldrons, Three Fires
Math
Kaybryn (UK)
The external and internal
world of the Fili - We will explore the triplicities and
elements of the Irish tradition of Druidry. We will take
a look at some practical expressions of the three realms
that can make a difference in our lives and touch on the
more esoteric aspects through the poetry of Amirgen.
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| 11am |
The Dark Goddess
Frances
Billinghurst (AUS)
From the dawn
of time the Great Earth Mothers created and walked upon
the land. From these primal beginnings, they have been
shaped by perception and a lack of appreciation of their
true chthonic powers. There are more aspects to the Dark
Goddesses than that of the Crone, and they do not always
play "nice". Through increasing our understanding
of their true purpose and developing/strengthening our
relationship with them on their terms, we may appreciate
the lessons they have for us. |
11.30 |
The Rhythm Circle
Neil Jourdon (SA)
The universal language of rhythm is one
we can all understand irrespective of our background,
spoken language, age or musical ability. Creating music
together as a group is a magical experience to be part
of. As humans we have been doing it since the dawn of
time yet in the modern age, and especially the Western
culture, many have lost that connection. We tend to
consume music rather than create it, listen TO rather
than DO! So why not bring along your drums and percussion and be part of a rhythm circle and help create some
musical magic. This will be an experiential 'workshop'
and not a drumming lesson. The session will be facilitated
by Neil Jourdan and will begin with some basic instruction
on drumming and improvisation techniques. |
| 12 noon |
LUNCH |
12 |
LUNCH |
| 1pm |
Working with the 4 Elements
Stephen Cottee (AUS)
Discover the 4 elements and how to work with them. Also
covers the pentagram and various ways of working with
the elements and the pentagram in meditation and ritual.
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1pm |
Tarot Workshop : Divination
and Personal Psychic Development
Riell Greyeyes (HUN)
In this workshop we will be focusing on
"hands on" experience. Please
bring your own Tarot deck and some paper and pen
if you wish to take notes.
THIS WILL BE A 2 HOUR
WORKSHOP! |
| 2pm |
Lecture - Mercury/Thoth - Gods of Magic and
of Information
Ramsey
Dukes (UK)
Traditional science
sees the world as matter. The New Ager sees it as energy.
Matter is Mother, Energy is Father, and between them they
have evolved Information, the Child.
A world of information is a truly magical world because
the essence of magic is not so much making things happen
as allowing them to happen - and anything can happen in
an information universe. So let's look beyond Matriarchy
and Patriarchy to the Aeon of the Crowned and Conquering
Child! |
2pm |
Tarot Workshop : Divination and Personal Psychic Development
with Reill Greyeyes continues ...... |
| 3pm |
Finding a Group, Grove
or Coven
All Lecturers
- Chaired by Jo Kaybryn (IRL/UK)
An open panel discussion on tips & hints when
looking for various magical or spiritual groups. What
to look for but most importantly, what to avoid. Each
lecturer will talk from within their own paths perspective.
Set questions will be asked for each lecturer to comment
on and then the floor will be open to Festival participants
to ask away! |
3pm |
NO WORKSHOP |
| 4pm |
Stalls Close
Festival Closes to Day Visitors |
4pm |
Stalls Close
Festival Closes to Day Visitors |
| 4.30pm |
Closing Ceremony
Ramsey
Dukes and Frances
Billinghurst
Come join us for the Closing Ceremony. Please
arrive PROMPTLY or you may find you are not granted access
to the circle once the ceremony has commenced. For Weekend
Campers only! |
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| 6pm |
Dinner - optional see Feast
page for costs.
Roast Meats on spit, potatoes, salads and dessert! |
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| 7.30pm |
Festival Debrief
The Event Committee
& Sub Committee
A chance for you to tell those that
put this festival together your experience of the weekend
while it's still fresh in your mind! Tell us what you
liked and what you didn't, what you want to see more of
or what you want to see less of. Anything else you think
may help us to make it even better next year! |
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| 8.00pm |
Bardic Circle
Chaired by Jo Kaybryn
(IRL/UK)
Why not end your festival
experience in style with a relaxed evening of storytelling?
Everyone is welcome to share their favourite myth, legend
or fairy tale. Be brave and put your name down! You can
sign up for as many stories as you like, but we ask that
you only do one per turn, so that everyone has a chance
to entertain. Our lecturers will also be participating
so come on and unleash the Bard within ! |
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| MONDAY |
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Clean Up of Festival site
We understand some people have to 'hit
the road' but as we all had a hand in making the mess,
we ask that you all partake in assisting
with a bit of the clean up. It's the least we can all
do .............
We thank you and look foward to welcoming you next year! |
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This Festival schedule is subject to
change without prior notifciation and timings may differ slightly
on the day.
© Natures Magick
Ltd 2009
www.naturesmagick.co.nz
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