Circle Sanctuary

Welcome Fall Festival- Circle Sanctuary

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Welcome Fall Festival

Celebrate the Autumn Equinox on Saturday, September 20th, from 9:30 am to 5:30 pm at Circle Sanctuary Nature Preserve near Barneveld, Wisconsin, for their annual Welcome Fall Festival. 

The festival includes workshops, ceremonies, and Nature walks, and has activities for all ages. Registration is required, and the deadline is Thursday night, September 18. To register, or to learn more, please visit circlesanctuary.org/welcomefall. Cost for in-person attendance is $30 for adults, youth 5 and older is $15, and children under age 5 are free. Sacred Sun Equinox Magic, a virtual workshop, will be live-streamed from our on-site festival.

Paganism

Column: The Stories of Our Lives

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Ever since then, across six decades, I’ve associated the forest – any forest – with dwarfs, elves, secrets, songs, trolls, traps, witches, wizards, and other mysterious manifestations. All unknowingly, my ex-monk philosophy professor father was laying the tracks for my later embrace of Norse mythology and Ásatrú religion.

Lady Liberty League

Religious invocation dispute in a Wisconsin county

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GREEN BAY, Wis. — Brown County Supervisor Patrick Evans submitted papers on July 30 to place a measure on November’s ballot. That non-binding ballot measure would uphold a Christian-style invocation before full meetings of the Brown County Board of Supervisors. The proposed ballot measure read, “Should the Brown County Board of Supervisors continue to open their monthly board meeting with a Christian-style (prayer) invocation?”

The current ordinance requires that the board’s vice chair opens each meeting with an invocation. Evans charged that some supervisors wanted to open the invocation process to “anybody who comes in.” He is reported as saying that “If they are Wiccan, they pray to the devil,” and would invoke the Christian devil. He added, “I support where we have it now, having it Christian based.”