Spring Equinox Celebrations?

[kaitykaity]

Where?
When?

I'm a lapsed Nazarene, but I've always wanted to attend a pagan spring celebration/rite.

How would I find one? What are they like? (I'm in Oregon--suppose I should have mentioned that first.)

Thanks!!

;)

[DarkPhenyx]

1. Do a google search.

Either Pagan or Wicca (wiccan) and Oregon. That should give you a nice list which will include local groups. You might also try your local independant paper and/or WitchVox online.

[billhos]

2. here's a link

http://www.witchvox.com/vn/vn_index/xevents.html

[Ilsa]

3. I'm celebrating recovery from springtime Poison Ivy.

My leg is looking better, but the steroids make me edgy.

Stay out of the poison ivy if you have a partially-to-unclothed- woodland celebration!

[kaitykaity]

5. Will make a note of it.

Thank you. :evilgrin:

[VelmaD]

4. WitchVox is a great resource...

so follow that link above.

As for what they're like...why we all strip down nekkid and dance around like maniacs in the pale moonlight of course. ;)

[kaitykaity]

6. I was thinking more of like costuming, make-up,

or are street-grubbies okay? I'm gonna walk in there a complete greenhorn anyway, I was hoping not to advertise it like glaring neon.

[VelmaD]

7. I'd imagine "street-grubbies"...

would be fine for most daytime festivities. Wear something you're comfy in.

[Solon]

8. Nothing beats sky-clad.

There are bonuses to being a guy in a female dominated religion ;)

[kaitykaity]

9. I'm just glad there is such a thing

(female-dominated religion I mean).

I'm glad there are guys coming over to our side. Kinda hard to have fertility rites without ya.

:D

[DarkPhenyx]

11. Touching on a pet peeve here.

Paganism (Wicca, et. al.) is not a female dominated religion. Nor are the men in it "coming over to your side". If that is the reason you are getting into it then you are chooosing the wrong reason.

Yes, I know a lot of people are going to argue with me on this point. However, Wicca in specific, is a balanced religion. It has both God and Goddess. W/o one the other does not work nearly as well. Men have been an important part of modern Wicca since it's inception. In pre-History religious antecedants to Wicca they were very often the prime movers and shakers of the religion. The ones conducting the rituals. Yes, I know people are going to argue this point as well, however it is difficult to argue with historic and archeological evidence.

[kaitykaity]

12. Not disagreeing. It's a matter of perception, given how

abject and negative and noxious and ugly the images of women are in the father sky god faiths, a religion that celebrates the female can be seen as female-dominant. After all, we are all operating in the blade paradigm, where either one or the other is seen as dominant.

[DarkPhenyx]

13. Your perception would be wrong.

That's why I tried to help correct it. A religion that celebrates the female is not, necesarily, female dominant. Proclaiming that it is makes it no better than the male dominant religions. It simply makes it yet another extremist cult/religion which isn't interested in balance and equality.

We aren't operating on a blade paradigm. Not all of us.

[DarkPhenyx]

10. Paganism is NOT female dominated. n/t