[Ardantane Herald] May 20, 2007 at Ardantane

[Lliles at aol.com]

Please  feel free to pass the information in the Ardantane Herald to anyone 
who might be  interested.    
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SUNFEST,  Saturday - Sunday, June 23-24, at _Ardantane_ 
(http://www.ardantane.org/campus/campus.htm) 

$25  Adults, $10 ages 13-17, Under 13 are free (Discount certificates  may be 
used for festivals) 
A warm and wonderful camping festival to celebrate Litha, the summer  
solstice. Bring your own tent and food (or enjoy simple meals at the  Solar Cafe). 
The program will include  workshops on various magickal and spiritual subjects, 
the  Annual Sun King Contest (open to all genders), an optional  hike to a 
sacred site, the Celebration of the Sun main  ritual, bardic circles around the 
fire, and more. 





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Upcoming  classes: 
Plants, Bones, Spirits, & Stones  (Shamanic Healing 101), Sat-Sun  May 26-27 
Rites of Change: Making Ritual, Sat-Sun  June 2-3 details below! 
Mindful,  Magickal Communication, Sat-Sun Jun 9-10   
Sat-Sun  Jun  23-24  Sunfest    Ardantane NA   NA 

Sat-Sun Jul 21-22 Ethics  for Pagan Leaders: The Good, the Bad, and the 
Muggley  
Space is available in all these  terrific classes.  Pick one and plan to 
spend the weekend in the  mountains! 
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Spring/Summer  Beaver Days!  
Blessed  Beavers work parties will focus on Dome construction and Cattail 
Cottage for the  next few months. Here are dates scheduled for the spring and  
summer: 
Sun.  May 27 
Sat.  June 9 
Sun.  Jun 24     
Sat.  Jul 14 
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Fundraising 
Got  an idea for a fundraising event, such as a garage sale, car cleaning, 
bake  sale?  Contact _publicity at ardantane.org_ (mailto:publicity at ardantane.org) 
,  and we'll advertise it here. (see above for an example) 
Right now the bank owns most of Ardantane's land: 25 acres  in the gorgeous 
Red Rocks area of northern New Mexico’s Jemez Mountains, with  National Forest 
on two sides. 
By raising $120,000 we can pay off the bank mortgage and  save about $60,000 
in interest over the next few years.   Once we buy out the remaining staff 
shares (interest-free!), then the whole  thing will belong to Ardantane, Inc. – 
and to all of us in the Pagan  community, and to our children, and our  
descendants. 
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What:  Rites of Change: Making  Ritual 
Sponsor:  School of Magic  and Witchcraft 
When:  Sat-Sun  Jun 2-3 
Where:  Ardantane 
Instructors: Amber  K & Rowan  
Here's your chance to learn from the lady who wrote the book!  (i.e.,  
Ritualcraft, by Amber K and Azrael Arynn K.) Sort of like learning how to play  
drums from Mickey Hart, or method acting from Konstantin Stanislavsky. Who can  
pass up a chance like that?
 
This course provides a comprehensive groundwork in the ways, whys, and  
wherefores of pagan ritual. We explore the many different types of ritual:  
solitary personal rituals, group magickal working, seasonal celebrations, and  rites 
of passage. Specific topics include the preparation of altars and the use  of 
symbolism, rituals for people of mixed religious orientation, the  
astrological timing of ritual, effective invocation of deity, how to engage the  ritual 
participants in the process, and as well as the basics of creating sacred  
space and focusing energy. Participants will keep a journal throughout the  
weekend and design and perform their own ritual using ideas drawn from the  workshop.

Amber K is the author of True Magick, Ritualcraft, and other books on  the 
Craft and magick. She is also the Executive Director of Ardantane and serves  on 
its faculty. Amber has been a professional Training Specialist for the  
federal government, commercial and non-profit organizations, religious  
organizations, and the enterprises of an Indian Pueblo.

Rowan (Laura Liles) has been involved in the pagan/Wiccan community in  
northern New Mexico since 1986.  A third degree initiate in the Ladywoods  
tradition, and former HPS of Our Lady of the Woods coven in Los Alamos, New  Mexico, 
she currently serves Our Lady of the Woods as its herald and  merchant.  She 
has a keen interest in group and individual ritual as a  vehicle for 
transformation and growth.

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To  register for any 2007 Ardantane class, write to _registrar at ardantane.org_ 
(mailto:registrar at ardantane.org) .   
If  you prefer to register on line, go the Ardantane home page 
(www.ardantane.org)  and click on calendar, the second button on the left.  Click on 
register  for a class or event, which takes you here: 
http://ardantane.org/calendar/registration/event_register.htm 
Select  your class, fill in the contact information, and we will be notified. 
   
To  pay on line, which allows you to use a credit card, and make either full 
or  partial payments, click on pay for a class or event, which takes you  
here: 
http://ardantane.org/calendar/registration/event_payment.html 
Be  sure to bring your Beaver Bucks, or other discount coupons to the class 
so that  we can have a record of exactly how you paid.   
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To  apply for work study for any Ardantane class, write to  
director at ardantane.org. 
Got  Beaver Bucks?  For every volunteer day you put in, you'll get a $35 
tuition  credit.    
You  can also get a tuition credit of $25 by bringing a new student to an 
Ardantane  class.  Invite a friend to come to a class with you and receive a $25  
gift certificate towards the next class you register for.  When you and  your 
friend register, in the comments box, just put in your friend's name and  
that they are a first time student. It is that easy! 
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B*B,
Rowan, OLW



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