Meetings are held the second Monday of the month 7:30pm at:

Denny's, 6908 Miramar Road, San Diego, CA 92121

Phone: 858-578-6987

If you haven't been to a meeting in a while please contact the Membership Officer  to confirm the meeting schedule.

What’s Brewing

Hi Everyone,

Another year has begun and the promise of spring with all potentials in the air. It is so wonderful.

Beltane in the Park will be on April 26, 2008, at the usual place in Balboa Park. Deryl has written this year's Beltane rite. Her inspiration was from the movie Avalon. There will be drumming, dancing, and merriment to cheer the arrival of warmth and the sun. Afterwards, there will be dancing the Maypole and door prizes.

We, of Calafia, are trying something new this year with Pagan Art in the Park. Since we have so many talented and creative people in our community. We would like to have the arts displayed at Beltane. So look around and bring your own creation to display at this event.

San Diego Pagan Pride is having their Third Annual Wine Tasting, Saturday, March 29th, 2008, 7 p.m. to 10 p.m. at Wine Steals, 1243 University Ave, San Diego, CA 92103 Directions Only: 619-295-1188. Come and raise a glass to a wonderful cause and spend time with fellow Pagans and friends.  There will be non-alcoholic beverages available, a Silent auction, door prize drawing, and complimentary appetizers. Tickets are $15.00 in advance, $20.00 at the door. Each ticket will get you five tastings. For information on where to purchase tickets in advance, Go to www.sdpaganpride.com or contact Valera at The Village Witch or Hope. For information on how you can help with food and wine sponsorships or for donations with the silent auction or door prizes, please contact Valera.

Mimi Rowher (57) was found dead in her mobile home in San Marcos on January 22. 57-year-old Julio Jacobo-Curiel is the prime suspect in her death. Rowher's family and the San Diego Sheriff's Department are asking for the public's help in finding Jacobo-Curiel. There will be a memorial for High Priestess, Mimi – Lady Phoenix – on Sunday Mar 16 at Noon. It will be a Pot-luck Celebration of Life. William Eade, HP, vendegaar@cox.net

The various bookstores have a variety of classes. They are very informative and then there is always the camraderie. The wealth of information is something that should be taken advantage of.

I found a few articles that are interesting:

An Altar Beyond Olympus for a Deity Predating Zeus. Before Zeus hurled his first thunderbolt from Olympus, the pre-Greek people occupying the land presumably paid homage and offered sacrifices to their own gods and goddesses, whose nature and identities are unknown to scholars today.

Invalid Marriages: PHILADELPHIA – The American Civil Liberties Union of Pennsylvania filed the first three lawsuits today in a planned statewide challenge of a recent judicial declaration stating that marriages are invalid if presided over by a minister who does not regularly serve a church or preach in a physical house of worship. The ruling potentially endangers thousands of marriages in Pennsylvania.

Slow Time: Pagan teacher and author of "Slow Time," Waverly Fitzgerald talks about rethinking her relationship to time. Lately it seems that many of us are living as if we are over-caffeinated hamsters on well-greased exercise wheels. Spiritual teacher and author Waverly Fitzgerald believes we'd all benefit by changing our ideas and relationships with time. In her new book, "Slow Time," Fitzgerald, who has written for Beliefnet and Sage Woman magazine, provides exercises and ideas intended to inspire people to align themselves with nature's natural rhythms — night and day, the monthly lunar cycle and the yearly solar round — rather than living their lives to the frenzied beat of industrial time.

Pagan chaplain Patrick McCollum appeared before the US Commission on Civil Rights in Washington, DC yesterday, to speak at a briefing focused on prisoners' religious rights. His statement presented a chilling atmosphere of religious discrimination in the State and federal prisons that McCollum described as "endemic".

So many earthquakes lately and all are being monitored by the government! Check out the list of all recent earthquakes! It is sooo long!

Blessings for a bright, joyous spring!