Green Faerie Grove

Jeff Altergott Concert in Columbus on Saturday September 22

garandu — Sun, 23 Sep 2007 16:13:36 +0000

A Brothers Beautiful night was had by all when Jeff Altergott, the musical guest of Between the Worlds 2007, made an appearance at Victorian’s Midnight Cafe on Saturday night with his s.o. Joe. In attendence were a large number of local BTW alums, including Ea, Garan du, Akesios, Jesse, Quill, Daystar, SpiritWolf, West, Scott, Ant, Ernie, Doug, and Myrddin. Jeff wowed the house, after which the group retired to Club Diversity for drinks and carrying on. Braid it, brother!

Pagan Spirit Gathering 2007 is Coming

garandu — Sat, 31 Mar 2007 14:59:59 +0000

The members of GFG will be attending the annual Pagan Spirit Gathering (PSG) hosted by Circle Sanctuary in southern Ohio this coming June. GFG members Garan du and Ea are the coordinators of the Rainbow Center at PSG. Akesios is the newly-installed Gatekeeping Coordinator. Additionally, other alumni of the Between the Worlds Men’s Gathering play important roles at PSG, including Grey Tricksterwolf (Assistant Coordinator of Psyche’s Grotto), Daystar (Assistant Workshift Coordinator), and Christopher Penczak (Guest Speaker and facilitator of the 2007 Men’s Ritual). GFG has been active at PSG since 1999, and what we have learned there has helped us to host BTW. PSG runs from June 17-24. The deadline to register is June 4th.

Winterstar 2007

Akesios — Mon, 12 Feb 2007 21:53:09 +0000

Ea and Akesios represented GFG at Winterstar 2007 this year. They assisted with the hosting of the Faerie Woods cabin along with Joe Rothenberg from the Association for Consciousness Exploration (A.C.E.), and fellow Faerie Woods members Raven, Paul, Kat and Dana. The weekend was quite glorious, despite the snow and 0 to 10 degree temperatures. For those that are unaware, Winterstar is a small gathering held at Atwood Lake Resort in Northern Ohio that is hosted by A.C.E., the folks who bring you the annual Starwood event. There are not many presenters at Winterstar, due mostly to space provided at the resort, but the classes are all very interesting. This year’s theme was Vision Quest. Ea presented two well attended workshops. One on coming out as a vision quest - a GLBT themed workshop, and the other on traveling the Enochian Aethyrs as a vision quest. Both Ea and Akesios attended a workshop on theatrics in ritual and a two-part workshop on stillpoint, the art of meditation. The theatrics workshop was presented by Sally Eaton and focused on using what you already are to stand in appropriate places in ritual. In other words, if you are normally a extroverted, all-loving male, you might be an excellent choice for Dionysus. The stillpoint workshop was very enlightening. The presenter, Patricia Monaghan, presented many different ways to meditate and the theories behind them. She authored a book on complete meditation on which he class was based. It’s main purpose was to aid you in finding the best meditation method for you. Akesios and Ea greatly enjoyed both classes. On Friday night, Akesios and Ea managed to gather several GLBT members and friends for a feast at the resorts nightly buffet. Saturday night was spent hopping the cabin parties and spreading the word about the Between the Worlds Men’s Gathering (BTW). Flyers were left at the Winterstar registration desk on Thursday, but more were passed out throughout the week. Overall, it was a successful venture and GFG will attend again next year.

Imbolc 2007

ea — Thu, 01 Feb 2007 05:01:45 +0000

On Saturday, January 27, 2007 the brothers of the Green Faerie Grove celebrated Imbolc. The ritual was held at grovestead and facilitated by Quill. As part of ritual, we made bags into which we put tokens representing our hopes and dreams and the energy to make them come to fruitition. Quill wrote a wonderful poem for the ritual, which you can read here.

After ritual, we shared a wonderful meal together and spent a while laughing, joking and talking. From all of us, the brothers of the Green Faerie Grove, a happy and blessed Imbolc. May your dreams and hopes grow with the growing warmth of the season.

Blessed Be!

2007 GLBT Census of Central Ohio

ea — Sat, 27 Jan 2007 18:03:45 +0000

The United Way of Central Ohio is conducting a 2007 GLBT Census. They are asking GLBT people from Central Ohio to complete a survey as part of their research. They include questions regarding spirituality and anticipate using this information to provide better services to the GLBT community through sponsored programs and organizations. Please take a few minutes to fill it out. This census provides a great opportunity to show how large our community is and what we want to see in the way of social services.

Welcome to our new web site.

ea — Tue, 16 Jan 2007 08:51:48 +0000

If you’ve visited us before, you’ll notice that we’re building a new web site. Our grove’s attention has been focused on our men’s gathering, Between the Worlds. As a result, we hadn’t maintained our site very well. We’re in the process of updating, refreshing and adding a lot of new resources to the site. Please bear with us while we complete it and thanks for visiting our site.

–The Brothers of the Green Faerie Grove