[Ardantane Herald] September 9, 2007 at Ardantane

Mon Sep 10 02:04:21 GMT 2007

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who might be  interested.    

Come to the Pirate  Party!

'Tis true, yer invited to a gathering of the Brethren (and Sistern) on  
Saturday, October 13 at Ardantane! It'll happen at the Tortuga Tavern, that  some 
calls the Dome, ter celebrate the enclosing of that structure. There'll  be a 
Pirate Fashion Show, a Pirate Trivia Contest, there'll be singin' of  sea 
chanteys and dancin' the hornpipe, Swashbucklin' Competition, Storytelling,  
Private-ear Divination, Jolly Roger beer and root beer and rum and pizza and  more! 
It's all to raise some booty ter buy windows and doors and finish the  Dome, 
so it's a cause that every red-blooded buccaneer can get behind. Here be  the 
details, mate:

EVENT: Plunderin' Pirate Party at the Tortuga Tavern (Ardantane)
DATE: Saturday, October 13
TIME: 6:00 pm to 11:00 pm
PRICE: $13 per person (and bring some loot fer the wet bar!)
DRESS: Full pirate costumes preferred (or tavern wench, or whatever)
BRING: Yer mates (car pool please), yer costume, yer gold
DIRECTIONS: E-mail _AmberK1 at aol.com_ (mailto:AmberK1 at aol.com)  or call 
505-469-3307
AGES: 18 and up, no exceptions, and if yer not 21 then keep out of the grog  
barrel.

Be yer a salty old buccaneer, or be ye a lily-livered landlubber. See ye at  
the Tortuga Tavern, matey!!!

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Beavers Work Parties: You  Are Needed!

The Dome is so close to being completely enclosed--enough so that we're  
holding the Pirate Party there! But we need help to finish the job by October  13. 
We'll be having every Wednesday, plus Saturday, October 13 to finish  what we 
can and set up for the Pirate Party. (No Beavers on Sundays.) Come help  if 
you can -- free lunch and beverages, Beaver Bucks, etc., no construction  
experience necessary. Call 469-3307 if you have questions.

Upcoming Beaver  days

Wednesday, September 12
Wednesday, September 19
Wednesday, September  26
Saturday, October 13

Please note there will be NO WORK PARTY on  Sunday Sept. 23, due to conflict 
with Magickal Mountain  Mabon.

We'll  get started at 8:00 am (you can arrive later if you need to) and work 
as long as  feels good. Free cold beverages and lunch, and $35 in Beaver Bucks 
for those who  work 6 hours.

Ladder teams will be trimming and taping seams, and high  teams will be 
putting on the rubberized roofing compound and installing more  panels.

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Upcoming  classes: 
Sat-Sun October 6-7: Tarot  for the Spirit  Description below! 
Sat-Sun October 13-14: Plant  Medicine: Fall/Winter Herbs 
Space is available in all these  terrific classes.  Pick one and plan to 
spend the weekend in the  mountains! 
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Fundraising  
We  reached our goal of $32,000 for the land fund in 2006.  Our goal for  
2007 is $44,000.  We are not on target, or even close.  We have only  about 
$7,000 so far this year.   
What  can you do to help?  Obviously, if you can sit down and write a nice,  
generous check, that would be great.  But not all of us can do that.   You can 
also volunteer your time, attend a class, bring a friend to class, put  up 
flyers for classes, or arrange a fund raiser.   
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:  Tarot  for the  Spirit 
Sponsor:  School of Magic  &  Witchcraft 
When:  Sat-Sun  October 6-7 

Where:  Ardantane 
Instructors: Starweaver  

This class is intended for  people who are already comfortable reading tarot 
for themselves or others, and  would like to go deeper into the symbolism of 
the cards.
The class explores  tarot as a spiritual/psychological system, using concepts 
from the Renaissance,  Occult, and Modern periods of tarot interpretation. 
The relationship of the  tarot to qabalah and astrology is explored in depth. 
The major arcana, court  cards, and number cards are each studied in detail, as 
subsystems of the tarot.  A range of experiential exercises make connections 
between the symbolic content  of the cards and one's personal, intuitive 
responses.
Learn to tap the  potential of the tarot as a multi-purpose spiritual tool, 
and enrich your  divination practice.
Tom Waters (Starweaver) has  been teaching at Ardantane since 2003, where he 
is presently dean of the School  of Magic & Witchcraft. He is a Wiccan priest, 
and co-author of Understanding  the Tarot Court.
Starweaver  has served on the Ardantane board of  directors since 2002. At 
various times, he has been active in the Unitarian  Universalist church, the 
Coyote Willow chapter of the Covenant of Unitarian  Universalist Pagans in 
Albuquerque, and the international tarot community. We  has presented workshops at 
the World Tarot Congress in Chicago and the Toronto  Tarot Symposium.
Starweaver  has degrees in physics and computer  science, and holds a PhD in 
astronomy. He has worked as a university professor  and technical writer, and 
is currently a health physicist at Los Alamos National  Laboratory. His 
hobbies include cooking, gardening, and artwork. 

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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! 

B*B,
Rowan, OLW

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