So last weekend we vended at Merry Meet with Raven. Turnout for the event was poor, but we had a blast hanging out together, and made money anyway.

Now I have an interesting weekend ahead of me. Tomorrow we initiate our second student into Briar Rose, and then on Sunday I fly out to Hong Kong for a week to visit the Disney office over there and provide some systems training. Later next month, I get to do the same in Rio de Janeiro, London, Munich, Rome and Madrid. Yes, I'll be in Munich during Oktoberfest...

Still working on the DVD "Making and Using Ritual Masks", but it will be an excellent one when it is ready...

Raven and I are both going to try to vend at PantheaCon again in 2009, and we want to do the Denver INATS (International New Age Trade Show) next July as well.

Anyway, that's it for now.

Robin Artisson's latest book, the Flaming Circle, has just been released by Pendraig Publishing. It will be showing up on Amazon over the next few days.

"A Regeneration of the Pre-Christian Spiritual Worldviews and Religious Practices of the Holy Isles."

This book is very different from anything Robin Artisson has written so far, for a very special reason: it is written in the tone of a father to his children. This book is a gift for his children, full of things he would want them to know and things he would want to tell them, to help them through their lives. The book is closer, more intimate, and warmer than most of his work.

But it includes massive amounts of material regarding native British Isles (Britain and Ireland) traditional Paganism and spiritual ecology, and native Gods and Goddesses. Tons of scholarly backing and personal inspiration, as well as a wide and complete selection of traditional Pagan philosophical "points of guidance" are offered, as a father would want to offer his most beloved offspring. A full working reconstruction of the pre-Christian polytheistic religious perspectives and practices of Pagan Britain and Ireland is "taught" in its pages, like a guidebook and a long letter/narrative being sent from father to children.

There is a long occult tradition of such exchanges. All are invited to listen in on a man telling the most important things he can tell his children, and hoping that they remember these things when he is gone and they have children of their own. A very personal project, but one he has wanted to create and write for years, and it deals with years worth of material he has collected.

Available $19.95

978-0-9796168-4-6

The acclaimed Australian recording artist Wendy Rule will be touring the US this Fall, and will be playing live at the Alexia Robinson Studio in Burbank on September 19th.

For concert details and to purchase tickets, go to The Crooked Path

For tour information, go to Wendy Rule

Hedgerider: Witches and the Underworld  by Eric De Vries is now available from Amazon.

Drawing from an extensive historical, folkloric and mythological body this book provides a working body of Heathen Witch-lore, designed to transform the essence of humanity in something greater through contact with our Fetch and the Underworld itself.

The Crooked Path Journal: Issue 2, Summer 2008 is available for pe-order

Issue 2 of The Crooked Path Journal contains the following articles:
Artemisia - Eric De Vries
Bag of Bones - Steven Posch
Balkan Traditional Witchcraft - Radomir Ristic
Sympathetic Magic - R.J. Thompson
The Call - Veronica Cummer
The Dragon and the Dragon Slayer - Robin Artisson
Away With the Fairies - M.V. Wragg
Childe Ballad 243 - Steven Posch
Scourges and Traditional Craft - Radomir Ristic
Occult Significance of the Crossing Rite - R.J. Thompson
Cupmarks - Steven Posch
Great Spirits of Fate - Radomir Ristic
Virtues and Ethics - R.J. Thompson
Young Hornie Steals Fire - Steven Posch
The Road Less Travelled - Peter Paddon
Belladonna - Marilyn "Istari" R.

The Flaming Circle  by Robin Artisson is heading for the printer

"A Regeneration of the Pre-Christian Spiritual Worldviews and Religious Practices of the Holy Isles."

This book is very different from anything Robin Artisson has written so far, for a very special reason: it is written in the tone of a father to his children. This book is a gift for his children, full of things he would want them to know and things he would want to tell them, to help them through their lives. The book is closer, more intimate, and warmer than most of his work.

Balkan Traditional Witchcraft  by Radomir Ristic is almost ready (another week should do it...)

This book, the premier title in his homeland, is being published for the first time in English. It is a complete system of Balkan Traditional Witchcraft, a form of Crafting that has benefitted from continued practice with less interference from the Church and authorities than in western Europe. It is of both historical and practical value to the student of the Arts.

Bendith,

Peter

The latest book from Pendraig will be available shortly from Amazon and all the usual places.

Hedgerider: Witches and the Underworld is a re-interpretation of (Hedge-)Witchery. Drawing from an extensive historical, folkloric and mythological body it re-attributes and re-defines Witchery as a Heathen Cult centred around the journey to the Underworld and contact with the Unseen. With the insights into Cosmology, Philosophy and Practice this book provides a working body of Heathen Witch-lore, designed to transform the essence of humanity in something greater through contact with our Fetch and the Underworld itself.

June 2008 $12.95

978-0-9796168-7-7