Hemlock Vales Protogrove, ADF was officially approved on 3/22/07, which makes this the last hour of the last day of Hemlock Vales’ first year as an official Ar nDraiocht Fein Protogrove. There have been some ups and some downs; days when I felt everything was going well, and days when I questioned why I’d [...]
Archive for March, 2008
End of Year One & Ostara
Posted in Ostara, building a group, tagged looking back, looking forward, Ostara, year one on March 21, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Announce
Posted in Ostara, marketing, tagged effective announcements, marketing, Ostara on March 13, 2008 | 5 Comments »
Here’s a secret of mine: I dislike writing the email announcements for upcoming rites. I’m not certain why, exactly; I think part of it is that in addition to announcing on a local list and Witchvox, I also post announcements on a number of regional lists — one for Central Pennsylvania, two for Pennsylvania itself, [...]
On timing
Posted in Ostara, building a group, tagged Ostara, ritual timing, vernal equinox on March 4, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Strangely, it seems I haven’t posted about the timing of rites yet.
Earrach* of Pittsburgh has a lovely essay about accuracy of timing on the Sassafras Grove site as well as an essay about correcting calendar drift on the cross-quarters. Timing is useful; a Walpurgisnacht Rite I did as night turned to day May first was [...]
