I was careful and obviously reluctant to call this blog anything but a numerical allusion to its order and position. For those who visit this website and who enjoy my work, it can be plainly seen that I don’t blog all that often. However, tonight is the night…

Last night I had the privelege of attending Lisa Kenny’s PAN-sponsored Witches’ Ball! A whimsical and musical night which brought the wild ones out to revel in the glory and blessedness of the Old Ones and their manifold Ways. I was pleased to see the community out in force with over 100 attendees spiral-dancing and chanting to the Goddess under the musical and magickal direction of the eternally-enchanting Spiraldance band from Adelaide. CAW, PAN, WildWood, Circle Coven, Alexandrians, Discordians, HedgeWitches, Shamans, Fam-Trads and those elusive heathens all together in one Irish pub is something to celebrate! Slan to Lisa Kenny, the newly-elected president of PAN QLD for all her hard-work in organising the successful event and in spear-heading the direction of the new PAN QLD committee which was elected today at the AGM in Brisbane, QLD.

On the 31st of January (Lughnasadh) I was again priveleged to attend and volunteer as a healer and performer at Pagan Hearth’s (a newly-formed Pagan association in Queensland) High Summer Harvest Festival. The Lughnasadh Gathering was held at the old Kingston Butter Factory, and despite the on-and-off-again rain, the event drew a vital and substantial crowd of both Pagan and non-Pagan inclination. Workshops, stalls, food, singing, music, children’s activities, raffles and a ritual run by the beautiful and grounded Earthwyrm Coven of Mudgeeraba were enjoyed by all in attendance. The healing and reading tent (which I had the joy of serving at) were a priceless additive to the festival, and offered $10 readings and healings (the cheapest I’ve ever come across, and both readers and healers were highly skilled at their arts).

It would be remiss if I did not mention the illustrious Christopher Penczak and his 2-week Oz mid-late January tour in which he ran two soul-deepening and mind-enlightening workshops at the Pagan Summer Gathering (run by the Church of All Worlds). He also presented 2 full-day workshops in the Gold Coast and Brisbane respectively on the Celtic Mysteries of Cerridwen and the Cauldron and the Merlin of Albion, as well as ‘The Twelve Gates of Witchcraft’. I was honoured and lucky enough to attend all of these events and my own spirituality/consciousness has definitely been enhanced and expanded in every witch-way!

As I write this, I am gearing up for a bit of a mini-tour. I will be teaching all-day workshops in Canberra, Sydney, Brisbane and the Gold Coast (all of which are still open to registration, so if you are interested please e-mail me at spirited_services@hotmail.com). For the past few months or so I have felt the great need to convey the message of “Witch, walk thy talk!” Thus ‘The Spirited Life: Walking the Talk of the Witch’ workshop came about, and I can’t wait to start the travelling and the teaching. Teaching is a role that ever brings the teacher to the humble realisation that we are always students. I’ll be teaching and touring Oz again in July/August, before I decide to flip hemispheres and fly off to the UK/USA from September onward.

Wild Blessings to you all~