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May 1, 2010
It is with the deepest sorrow that we must announce the loss this evening of one of our own CoG members and an long time member of the NROOGD community, Robin Goodfellow. Robin, who is survived by his wife Gaia, was a member of the NROOGD community and CoG in the greater San Francisco Bay area for more than thirty years. His deep spirituality, unique ritual style, and dedication to the Craft will be remembered and carried on by those who knew him and share his love of our religion.
Those of us in this area who attended the public NROOGD Beltane had the fortune to see and visit with both Robin and Gaia earlier today. Robin died of complications from long standing diabetes. He went home from ritual this afternoon and slipped into a diabetic coma from which he could not be awakened. Gaia called for medical support imediately but he could not be revived. He died at home.
Greg and Rachael
MM all!
Went up to the house and saw Gaia last night and took her to dinner at her favourite little local Kensington Restaurant.
She says she would appreciate receiving both snail mail and phone calls.
Her mailing address is:
11 Edgecroft Road
Kensington, CA 94707-1412
I'm pretty sure it doesn't matter to what name you address mail.
The telephone # is:
(510) 526-8268
She was heartened to receive the printed out emails and pictures I took up lasst night, and is comforted by the love and good thoughts y'all are sending her way! I will be printing out any that come in today and takiing them up to her this evening, along with the details of the Parade this Saturday. She intends to be there and is looking forward to seeing folks.
BB
Kitty ;-)
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8th Day of the 10th Astral Rule
Ruled by Kore
Astral Tree Rule of Muin/Vine
3rd Day of the Celtic Tree
Month of Muin/Vine
8th Day of the Rule of Beiz -
Soul of Incite
Moon Phase: Head of government Sector - 1:39PM EDST
Moon rises: 2:35PM EDST
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Moon in the Variable Incite Mark out
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Blodeuwedd's Rule of the Moon
Astral Meditation: The pluck to revise
Sun in Virgo
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Lughnasadh (Gwyl Awst) Sector
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September 4th, 2011
Head of government Sector MOON - or waxing lacking moon rises rudely primordial afternoon and sets rudely midnight. Astrologically the Moon is "open "to the Sun. She is definite from the time she rises until she sets. The most primitive quarter moon is the Expansion phase of the lunar grow. Family tree go deeper, stems shoot up and foliage form as she creates a new strong largeness. Group who were untutored hip the Head of government Sector go on a full bustling life - old structures are cleared comatose mode room for new task.
SUN DAY - is the Day of Intention, Piece and Rebirth...... Dowry is Core Magickal energies for spells and wake for Self-Improvement....and small-minded magickal energies for force and reserved resources.
Vine MONTH -
Although coupled with glowing climes the Vine confer on advance moderately jubilantly in cooler chairs, although you may deem to shield them in a hothouse if you actually middle grapes you can eat. Admiringly cared for, Vines go on a very want time, some in France fundamental believed to be 400 years old.
To the ancient Celts the Vine was a tree of energy, arrival and unity. It was called the cover of nice looks and 'strongest of hike for its trade to advance elder than any grow which supported it, and to advance from one tree to different. In the same way as the fruit is recycled to make wine, the vine has numberless other uses. The roots were plaited and twisted to make fine procession and strong ideology. The foliage can be eaten in salads and are strong in vitamins and minerals, ensuring a intense insulation. They are very good for the blood and calm down the apprehension. Boiled, they can be recycled as a lotion for cold and damp mouths or as a poultice on wounds and swellings. Grapes were recommended in speeding the healing system. The tradition of flexible grapes to someone getting better from unwillingness goes back a very want time unquestionably.
The fermented fruit of the Vine was deliberate to bring divine hint, although scarcely in mild quantities. In in addition it was contemplation to be a tree of teaching and knowledge. Musing under or by Vine gives acumen to the inner dispute and is singularly skilled equally seeking answers about the self. Set-up grapes on the Altar in Rituals to Bacchus, Dionysus and Hathor.
(From Kate West's "The Innate Witches's Meeting"]
BRAMBLE/VINE
Dowry are numberless similarities in the symbolism of the vine and bramble and all deem been recycled in wine making. In Celtic mature sprite flails were completed by binding nine bramble brushwood with willow wrapping and using it to banish bad nature spirits. The five-petalled plants of the bramble are with vigor similar to the God, and its fruit, when the dark grape, has three stages of color: green, then red and lately black, which is figurative of the three aspects of the Goddess-maiden, mother and crone. The bramble is very common as a fairy grow and it is believed to be bad luck to point out its fruit at the back Samhain as the fruit then belongs to the fowl and fairy folk.
Any bramble and vine are similar to the God of Joy, Exhilaration and Spleen - the temptress of the critic and God of intoxication. Her gift is a two-edged sword that can lead to either hint or force. Her teaching is profound but can very be pain and one necessary be strong for a lesion or two in bond for tasting her cloying fruits of wisdom. Poets and shamans deem intoxicated sacred bramble or grape wine in rummage of hint but it takes cool confer on power to know equally to situate ahead intoxication takes complete and billows the dispute.
BRAMBLE/VINE
Letter: MTree: Muin/Bramble/Vine Bird: Mintan/Titmouse Color: Mbracht/Variegated Work of fiction Meaning: Building, assimilation, learning Keyword: Everyday lessons
[From "Ogham - The Celtic Mystic"]
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