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May 2008
4th May - Beltane at Thornborough Henge - UK
Beltane at Thornborough Henge This is the fifth annual Beltane Celebration at Thornborough Henge (North Yorkshire), so help make it good one. Add to the visual magic of the day by dressing up in your finest festival clothes and costumes. Add to the musical magic by bringing along drums, didgeridoos or anything else you think we need to hear! Help raise a stone circle! Starts 1pm - admission free. Info: www.sacredbrigantia.com

10th May - East Anglia Mega Moot - Mildenhall, Suffolk, UK
A full day conference for East Anglia's and other areas pagan moots, groups, covens, hearths and solitarys to come together. Confirmed speakers include: Jo Caruth (Suffolk Archaeology rep) on Iron age, Roman and Anglo Saxon burials at the local RAF bases; Nick Ford on Pre-Roman Celtic money in Britain and its significance, social, political, economic, and magical...; Robin Herne on Ohgam; Jez Uppadine on Loki. Venue: Bell Hotel Conference rooms, Mildenhall, Suffolk, IP28 7EA. We have ten stalls available for which we are taking bookings now. They cost a fiver for the day. To book or for general info contact T at ntdo@btinternet.com

10th May - PFNE Leeds - Spring Convention
Saturday 10th May at Swarthmore Education Centre from 9:45am - 5:00pm. For more information or to book tickets: visit: www.paganfedne.org

11th May - The Goddess Show West! - Bath
Sunday 11th May at Bath Racecourse from 10am-5pm. Admission : £4 / Accomp kids under 13 free. Cafe & free parking. For more info : www.boktalo.co.uk or www.goddessshow.co.uk

17th May - Clan of Birds: A Soul Journey - Kent, UK
Friday (evening) 16th - Saturday 17th May at Oldbury Hill Woodlands, Oldbury Hill Iron Age Hill Fort, Kent. As you journey through the land, we trace our footsteps as a soul journey. We find the bird shrines of Crow, Kestrel, Buzzard and Magpie. Here, in honour and respect we reach out to the wisdom and inspiration of their unique spirit flight; carrying us on darkened wings of freedom to the ancestors, to healing, to wisdom and to prophecy. This is an intensive workshop that runs from Midnight to Sunset. We make both a physical and spiritual journey through the land, stopping at the bird shrines to understand further and more fully our soul connections that inspire us, hold us, bind us. Using shamanic journeying, meditation, ritual, creativity and profound silence. You will create a Clay Bowl, Oracle Pouch, a 10inch Red Deer Skin Drum and Plant Spirit Incense.
COST: £75 (includes all materials) This workshop is non-residential but there is a campsite located within walking distance: Oldbury Hill Campsite. Full Info and Booking : www.woodspirit.org.uk/

17th & 18th May - Oakenwood’s Herbal Weekend Camp - SE Wales, UK
Oakenwood Society is a voluntary group of people that enjoy learning and teaching on the subject of herbs. We are running 8 weekend courses through the summer months that are hosted on a farm set between Bristol and Cardiff.
Come and relax, unwind, make new friends and learn some of the secrets that herbs contain, that are good for your health as well as your pocket. Learn how to grow and prepare herbs, discover their many uses, make herbal skin products, ointments and creams, and much more. For Full Details Visit : www.oakenwoods.co.uk/html/weekends.html or ring 07505 396 366

22nd May - Ancient Songs, Modern Rhythms; A Pagan Drum Circle - Kent, UK
Thurs 22nd May and then 4th Thursday of every month Open to all who wish to join us to mark the changing seasons, festivals and the spirit of the wild land. Bring a drum and/or rattle and join us with Ancient Songs and Modern Rhythms. COST: £4 per person www.woodspirit.org.uk/

31st May & 1st June - Oakenwood’s Herbal Weekend Camp - SE Wales, UK
Come and relax, unwind, make new friends and learn some of the secrets that herbs contain, that are good for your health as well as your pocket. For Full Details Visit : www.oakenwoods.co.uk/html/weekends.html or ring 07505 396 366

June 2008
14th & 15th June - Oakenwood’s Herbal Weekend Camp - SE Wales, UK
Come and relax, unwind, make new friends and learn some of the secrets that herbs contain, that are good for your health as well as your pocket. For Full Details Visit : www.oakenwoods.co.uk/html/weekends.html or ring 07505 396 366

21st & 22nd June - Faerie and Elementals Festival - South Wales
The Faerie and Elementals Festival will take place on the 21st and 22nd of June 2008 at theatr tymaen, afan forest park, near port talbot [South Wales]. There will be storytelling, healers, psychics, music, dance, childrens activities and a magical marketplace - and, of course, faeries. entry is £3 for adults, accompanied children - free. More info at www.faerie.moonfruit.com (trade enquiries are welcome)

27th June - 1st July - Wild Witchcraft course - Shropshire, UK
Based at the amazing Wild Ways retreat centre in the heart of Shropshire. A long weekend of magic, ritual and workshops on the way of the hedgerow and natural Witch. An inspirational and fun course, that will be working with the unique landscape and environment that is Wildways, drawing on the inner mysteries and knowledge of our ancestors.
This is an opportunity to participate in and embrace the magical energies of the land, whilst learning and experienceing the true essence of spell craft, of shape shifting, the language of the trees and plants, the ritual of the stone circles, groves, lakes, rivers and streams. This is an opportunity to release the Wild Witch within and reconnect, reignite, grabbing your broomstick and taking flight!
Hosted by the Anglesey Druid Order and the Order of Gwyddon, teachers of Witchcraft and Druidry.
Cost: £295 Cost inclusive of evening meals for Saturday, Sunday and Monday, pitch for camping or indoor space, all materials for workshops. Please bring food to share for the firs evening together.
For further information, booking forms and details of all our events email wyrdenweave@btinternet.com or angleseydruids@hotmail.com

28th & 29th June - Oakenwood’s Herbal Weekend Camp - SE Wales, UK
Come and relax, unwind, make new friends and learn some of the secrets that herbs contain, that are good for your health as well as your pocket. For Full Details Visit : www.oakenwoods.co.uk/html/weekends.html or ring 07505 396 366

July 2008
3rd - 6th July - WITCH CAMP 2008 - Anglesey, Wales, UK
Frolicking witches event @ The Gorsedd Centre on the Ancient Island of Anglesey. Dust off your wands, fuel up your brooms and sling your cauldrons over your shoulders and join us for a long weekend of Bipety Bopety Boo, Witchcraft and fun! Workshops, rituals as well as the Great Cauldron Banquet on the Saturday night and lots and lots of Magic....Not to Missed!!
Cost - £165 per person. Cost Includes, pitch fro camping and all materials for workshops etc. The food for the Great cauldron banquet is included in your ticket, but we ask everyone to bring food to share for the Witches picnic on our first evening.
Accomodation: Plenty of camping spaces amongs our orchard trees. If you do not have a tent and owuld like to rent one we have a 6man, 12 man and 14 man tent you can hire for £2.50 per night.
Numbers are limited for this camp, we only have space for 100 people, places book up quickly.
To book your place or enquire, contact Kris Hughes & Michelle Axe - 07922 899176 & 07984 641430 - or email wyrdenweave@btinternet.com or angleseydruids@hotmail.com

11th - 13th July - Woodspirit Lammas Camp - Lancashire, UK
11th - 13th: Woodspirit Lammas Camp Lancashire. Email: dizziwitch@blueyonder.co.uk

12th & 13th July - Oakenwood’s Herbal Weekend Camp - SE Wales, UK
Oakenwood Society is a voluntary group of people that enjoy learning and teaching on the subject of herbs. We are running 8 weekend courses through the summer months that are hosted on a farm set between Bristol and Cardiff.
Come and relax, unwind, make new friends and learn some of the secrets that herbs contain, that are good for your health as well as your pocket. For Full Details Visit : www.oakenwoods.co.uk/html/weekends.html or ring 07505 396 366

26th & 27th July - Oakenwood’s Herbal Weekend Camp - SE Wales, UK
Come and relax, unwind, make new friends and learn some of the secrets that herbs contain, that are good for your health as well as your pocket. For Full Details Visit : www.oakenwoods.co.uk/html/weekends.html or ring 07505 396 366

30th July - 3rd August - Druid Camp - UK
Wednesday 30th - Sunday 3rd August. The Druid Camp is the biggest annual gathering of the Druid community in Britain. Running over four days every July, the Camp was first held in the summer of 2000. Organized by Emma Restall Orr of The Druid Network and Mark Graham of The Charnwood Grove, the aim of The Druid Camp is to celebrate and develop the community of modern Druidry.
Everyone is welcome! There are Druids and those studying the tradition through many different Orders, teachers and strands of Druidry. There are people who follow other nature-based spiritualities and philosophies. There are those simply interested or curious who are seeking a community or gathering of like-minded souls.
The camp is held in beautiful surroundings in the Forest of Dean, on the south Welsh border. In a stretch of meadows, edged by streams, woodland and fields, its tranquility seeps through every moment of the Camp. Full Info : www.woodspirit.org.uk/

August 2008
9th & 10th August - Oakenwood’s Herbal Weekend Camp - SE Wales, UK
Oakenwood Society is a voluntary group of people that enjoy learning and teaching on the subject of herbs. We are running 8 weekend courses through the summer months that are hosted on a farm set between Bristol and Cardiff.
Come and relax, unwind, make new friends and learn some of the secrets that herbs contain, that are good for your health as well as your pocket. Learn how to grow and prepare herbs, discover their many uses, make herbal skin products, ointments and creams, and much more. For Full Details Visit : www.oakenwoods.co.uk/html/weekends.html or ring 07505 396 366

23rd & 24th August - Oakenwood’s Herbal Weekend Camp - SE Wales, UK
Come and relax, unwind, make new friends and learn some of the secrets that herbs contain, that are good for your health as well as your pocket. For Full Details Visit : www.oakenwoods.co.uk/html/weekends.html or ring 07505 396 366

September 2008
5th - 7th September - Mercian gathering - 3 Day Pagan Camp - Warks, UK
Mercian gathering - 3 Day Pagan Camp - 4th Year! Near Nuneaton, Warks, UK. Wicker man, archery, flaming labyrinth, rituals, free healing tent, café, showers and hot tub.
Speakers include Philip Carr-Gomm, Anna Franklin, Tallyessin, Terry Mace, Bob Trubshaw, Anne Harris, Paul Mason, Martin Evans, Mick Summer, John Crow, Kim Huggins, Graham Joyce, Angela Paine, Jayne Milner [Apothecary],
Karen Cater, Troll
Workshops include- weaving, kid's workshops, peace making circles, Reclaiming the Masculine', Cabala, Qi Gong, Stav, wand making, rebirthing, shamanism, runes, garland making, belly dancing, morris dancing, animal powers, Sacred Alchemy and the Doors of Plant Perception, book binding, Celtic herbs, I Ching, Yoga, meditation, crystal healing, reiki, chanting, regression, ogham, wildlife samctuary...
Entertainment includes Ash and Ian, Endless-Knot, Damh the Bard, Gary Brienholt, Tallyessin, Waywyrd, Morris Dancers, Vikings
Adults £38, children 6-16 £14, under 6s free. All profits go to charity- the organisers don't make a penny! www.merciangathering.co.uk

7th September - The Goddess Show North! - York
Sunday 7th September at York Racecourse from 10am-5pm. Admission : £4 / Accomp kids under 13 free. Cafe & free parking. For more info : www.boktalo.co.uk or www.goddessshow.co.uk

19th - 22nd September - The Astrological Association of Great Britain's 40th Annual Conference - Northamptonshire, UK
The Astrological Association of Great Britain's 40th Annual Conference Venue: Staverton park, Staverton, Daventry, Northamptonshire NN11 6JT. For full information and booking, go to www.astrologicalassociation.com

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