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| New BlueRose F(a)eri(e) Class starts June 18 |
[Apr. 6th, 2011|11:33 am] |
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Please excuse the shameless crossposting:
My upcoming 2 year in-person F(a)eri(e) class has only a couple of spaces left. If you are interested, please send me an application by May 1st, 2011. More information can be found at www.BlueRoseFeri.com BlueRose F(a)eri(e) Level One
with Storm Faerywolf
(4 semesters: Roughly 2 Years, monthly sessions)
$200 per semester, pre-paid -or- $40 per month
New Class to begin June 18, 2011.
We will meet on the 3rd Saturday of each month, from 12 noon to 6pm
(September 2011's class moved to the 24th)
Submit an application to be considered
Class held at The Mystic Dream in Walnut Creek, CA
This foundational class deals with the basics of Feri practice. Using discussion, guided trance, energy work, art projects, and ritual, we will experience various aspects of the tradition culminating in the establishment of a Feri tradition spiritual practice. Students who complete this course will receive a certificate of completion. This class does not offer Feri initiation. All Three Levels are required for consideration of initiation into Feri tradition. Covered topics include: - History of the Tradition
- Meditation
- Cleansing/Kala
- Aligning the Three Souls
- The Iron and Pearl Pentacles
- The Black Heart of Innocence
- The Elements of Feri
- Opening the Crossroads
- Spellwork, Sorcery, and the Left Hand Path
- Basic Feri Ritual/Casting the Circle
- Working Tools
- The Guardians
- The Divine Twins
- Basic Sex Magic
- Ancestral Work
- The Infinitum (Gods of the Feri Lemniscate)
Storm Faerywolf is an artist, writer, poet, teacher, and initiate of the F(a)eri(e) tradition of witchcraft. He has been practicing the Craft for over 25 years and teaching for more than 15. He has lead open circles, given lectures, and taught classes in the San Francisco Bay Area and across the U.S. He holds the Black Wand, an honor bestowed by Feri Grandmaster Cora Anderson. He has studied diverse practices from various branches of the tradition which he incorporates into his own line of Feri, BlueRose. He is the author of The Stars Within the Earth, and is the editor of WitchEye: A Journal of Feri Uprising. For more information about his classes or his art visit his website at www.faerywolf.com. |
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| My Response |
[Feb. 16th, 2011|10:05 am] |
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My apologies to those who are overloaded with Feri drama. If this is you, please feel free to skip this link. I find myself needing to post a rebuttal to some serious allegations that were made against me. Please follow the link if you’d like to know my side of the story. http://www.faerywolf.com/statement.html |
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| the 'bunnies abide (x-posted from my elljay journal) |
[Feb. 5th, 2011|09:02 am] |
i was asked last night whether i had any advice for the dustbunnies about the Great Feri/Faery Split.
well, no, i said, only what i have said all along: if you don't like the Lore (or the company you keep, or the rituals you do, or the way the gods treat you), go out and make some of your own. N.B.: i said "make," not "make UP"--big difference. witches, as terry pratchett said, are the ones who choose. we choose to follow our particular path. we choose our friends. we choose our teachers. we choose what to do, what to read, who to hang with, how to view the world, how to treat other people, where to take a stand. and the choice always comes with the knowledge that we could, if we Willed, choose differently. that there is always more than one option. that we are free.
the only rule that i try to stick to is to act with integrity and be consistent with my avowed principles--and if i find that impossible, to look very carefully at those principles and those avowals as determine whether they are consistent with my True Will. if they aren't, then they need to be amended. but in general this isn't going to happen. a constitutional amendment isn't easy or fast, and it takes a unanimous vote of all three souls.
not to say that i will never change my opinion on anything--that's not principled, that's dead. the moment i stop learning something new all the time is the moment i'm done with life. i don't want that to happen before i actually physically stop breathing, thanks. i have seen what petrified attitudes have done to people and groups, and i want none of that.
i also see that there is a tremendous amount of hypocrisy within feri:
• people who write about how much they despise distance teaching who at the same time engage in it (yes, i'm talking to you, [redactedJ]).
• people who accuse, try, and execute, without ever knowing the facts of the case.
• people who use their initiate status to push non-initiates around and to gain political power within feri. (sorry, just because you are married to the gods doesn't mean i can believe every word you say. lots of people are married to the gods, and some of them aren't even feri initiates.)
• people who say they want privacy, and keep manufacturing new websites and magazines to show the whole world how very private they are, with a big neon sign over the door which flashes "WE AREN'T HERE!!!!".
• people who accuse me of all kinds of horrid things but do it on e-lists to which i don't subscribe, and who never once contact me directly to accuse me to my face. cowardly much? that doesn't seem to fit in with the feri "warrior ethic" about which i have heard so much and seen so little.
feh. i am justifiably annoyed, and i admit to a small spurt of rage whenever i see the icon of one of these people on facebook, but these little knee-jerk reactions are diminishing, and eventually will disappear, because all that crap is irrelevant. i have more important things to be getting on with, and (pratchett again) i can't be having with that sort of thing. and when i get together with the dustbunnies, as we did last night for a "family night," it is most soothing and delightful to know that the 'bunnies abide, and that we are doing our Work and causing ripples in the world. the forces of idiocy will not prevail.
do your Work. and let your Work color and permeate through your life. that's my advice. |
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| announcing a new initiate |
[Jan. 31st, 2011|10:57 am] |
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the dustbunnies and blue rose are pleased to announce the initiation of chris angelo on january 30, 2011. vee, storm, tim, and diana officiating. chris' new line, being a blending of dustbunnies and blue rose, will be known as dusty rose. tasteful! ;)
please welcome our new brother, who works in the boston area, and who will be a TA for vee's new online course which begins in march.
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| new online feri class |
[Jan. 11th, 2010|03:05 pm] |
The second iteration of last year's wildly successful "Feritics" online class will begin in March. The new group will be called "the Wild Hares" and will have its own e-list. Anyone who was left out of the class last year, or anyone who is interested in studying Feri online with me should contact me offlist at v dot weatherwax at gmail dot com. The class is free. The text is also available as a free pdf from lulu.com, but you might want to buy it just to keep it neat & tidy. The lessons are sent out at the beginning of each month in pdf format; they are beautifully designed and comprehensive, calling on sources both in and out of Feri, as well as my own Qabalistic vision. The teachings are my own brand of Feri, and I encourage students to study with other teachers simultaneously in order to gain a balanced perspective. Here's the current curriculum:
Feri Class Curriculum
Text: The Dustbunnies' Big Damn Handout Book
by Valerie Walker, available on http://www.lulu.com/content/3023755
(free pdf also available for download)
Lesson 1: Introduction to the Feri Circle, Three Souls, making kala
Lesson 2: Three Pentacles: Iron and the Fetch
Lesson 3: Three Pentacles: Pearl and the Talker
Lesson 4: Three Pentacles: Devotion and the Godself/the BHOI, building third pentacles
Lesson 5: Lemniscate overview: SG and Twins, Ladder of Hestia; Full Daily Practice with Kala
Lesson 6: Nimue: acknowledging and healing childhood traumas
Lesson 7: Dian y Glas and queerness
Lesson 8: Mari: finding the strength to love and nurture
Lesson 9: Twr: the responsibility of the warrior, the father, the teacher
Lesson 10: The Ana: aging, and giving over
Lesson 11: The Arddhu: death and rebirth
Lesson 12: The Guardians/ Da’ath
Lesson 13: Starfinder and Shining Flame
Lesson 14: Water Bearer and Black Mother
Lesson 15: Heaven Shiner/Fire in the Earth, the Center, the Gate
Lesson 16: The Three Heads of God I: Binah and Chokmah, the divine twins
Lesson 17: The Three Heads of God II: Getting there
Lesson 18: The Return: Be Ye as Serpents or as Doves
Lesson 19: The Directional Goddesses, the Feri LBRP
(There may be more, as writing this is an ongoing project of mine and i am continually exploring new areas.)
Once again, the contact email is v dot weatherwax at gmail dot com. |
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| pcon olde time revival 2.0 |
[Jan. 2nd, 2010|11:33 am] |
hi all--
the dustbunnies are looking for enthusiastic singers (and musicians) for the revival, which will be happening again (in two ballrooms, so we can fit twice as many people as last year). anyone interested should contact the choirmaster, ron miller: rmil0987 at gmail dot com. anyone interested in speaking parts, ushering, or other help, please contact jenya: jentb at hotmail dot com. minimal experience required, just the ability to make a joyful noise.
thanks, and see you there!!
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| Going to Pantheacon? Going to the Revival? |
[Sep. 12th, 2009|02:08 pm] |
The DustBunnies wish to announce:
We are looking for some enthusiastic singers and accompanists for the next Ole Time Revival Gospel Choir (Enlarged Version) at Pantheacon 2010. All voice ranges, all instruments welcome. If you live in the Bay area and can make it to a couple of rehearsals between now & February, that would be favorite.
Also fan-decorators, quarter-callers, invokers, and crowd-control/whipping-them-up-into-a-frenzy specialists are needed. contact me at v.weatherwax@gmail.com.
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| The Feri Goddesses of the Directions on FeriTradition.org |
[Jun. 26th, 2008|07:16 pm] |
The goddesses of the directions have long been urging me to expand their presence on feritradtion.org, so the time has come to ask for folk to submit their images, invocations, lore, poetry, personal visions and so forth. Rather than deal with material arriving to a variety of addresses please send it to witcheye@feritradition.org
Like the Guardians page http://www.feritradition.org/grimoire/lod/index.html I hope to make the section of the goddesses pages visually stimulating, so artwork would be ideal.
Haven't worked with the goddesses yet? Here are some resources giving you their names and images to aid and inspire you in making contact.
Valerie Walker's Faboo 'Feri Faq' at http://www.feritradition.org/FAQ.htm#deities
The Faery Rhodes site at http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Rhodes/5569/FaeDirectionGoddesses.html
Hail Aradia! Hail Tana! Hail Tiamat! Hail VerAvna! Hail those names yet to be discovered and uttered.
-Chas
P.S. Witch Eye was delayed due to Cora's passing, but will be made available in the following weeks. Also, her memorial page on FeriTradition.org is still in the works. |
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