MoonFire Calendar
Updated: Jan 25, 2012
For more information about any of these events, feel free to contact either the person listed below, or any of the people listed on the Contacts page.
We have ritual every 3rd Sunday of the month at the Church starting at 1:30PM. Rain or shine. (Predictability vs. following the lunar calendar: its a trade-off we accommodate by having a 3rd Sunday ritual and then celebrating the cross-quarter Sabbats).
All 3rd Sunday rituals are followed by a potluck, as are most of our other activities. UUCA is a peanut free zone, please do not bring any peanut products into the building. Also, please bring reusable plates and utensils if you can. They save on paper, plastic, and the earth!
MoonFire welcomes everyone. If you are wondering whether to bring children, are new to Paganism, or plan to take pictures or write about our ritual, check the listing and our new statement on attendance.
For a listing of other rituals and happenings, click here.
Our Social Circle is an opportunity to hang out with our fellow Pagans and do fun stuff. What we do can range from the purely social to rituals, classes, and more. Social circle events are listed below.
Our Paganism as a religious tradition is is now complete. For more information see the class page.
2012
February
Feb 4
Imbolc Ritual. Imbolc, also known as Oimelc, Brigid's Day, and Candlemas, is a time when we start to feel the returning energies of the young Sun God. This time of Midwinter is also when we honor Brigid, triple Goddess of poetry, healing and smith-craft. This is an excellent time for purification, dedication to one's tradition, and consecration of ritual tools. We ask the Pagan community and friends to join us as we celebrate the fire Goddess Brigid and attune to Her energies of inspiration, healing, and transformation. If you have ritual tools you would like to (re) consecrate, feel free to bring them. We will have a tool consecration altar set up with water from Circle Sanctuary's Brigid's Spring which can be used to cleanse your tools.
Please join MoonFire and Potomac Circle Ministries including Circle Sanctuary Ministers, Jeanet & David Ewing in this community ritual as we celebrate Imbolc and connect with Brigid. Ritual starts at 4:30pm so please feel free to arrive around 4pm. We'll meet in room 13/15 (Library on the 1st floor prior to entering the ritual space. Potluck will follow the ritual - please bring your own feast gear.
Feb 19
Ritual to Avert Gossip and Seek Our Inner Silence. In ancient Rome, sometime between February 18 through 20, the people celebrated the Day of Tacita. She was considered a silent goddess who helped curb gossip and harmful words spoken against people. We will draw on the inspiration of this old festival to seek our inner silence and refrain from spreading harmful words toward others. Join us Sunday, February 19, at 1:30 p.m. at the Unitarian Universalist Church of Arlington. Potluck will follow.
Northern Virginia Pagan Network
A very good resource for other events is the Northern Virginia Pagan Network Yahoo calendar. We will not necessarily repeat events listed there here unless we find something really special about them. To go to the Northern Virginia Pagan Network site and calendar click here:
http://www.novapagannetwork.org/CommunityEvents.htm
Fertile Ground Festival
Many of our members are involved in this event.
Fertile Ground Gathering which will take place this year from May 3-6, 2012.
Fertile Ground Gathering is a Beltane festival created to bring together the Pagan community; helping to build and strengthen the bonds among those who walk the Earth Paths in the greater Washington DC area. Fertile Ground is family-inclusive and offers fantastic workshops and services, diverse rituals, spectacular entertainment, drum circles and dancing around nightly bonfires, cabin camping, fantastic meals, some very special guests and of course, dancing around the maypole!
