Divine Divination in January

It's time for our annual divination meeting!

Sunday, January the 21st, will be our annual Divination meeting. Bring your Tarot decks, your runes, and your ephemerides!

The fun will begin at noon. There will be DVD entertainment available so the people who are not currently having or doing readings won't get bored. Make your suggestions for DVD selection on the PPD Yahoo! list.

We will be meeting at Sophia & Hypatia’s house this year. Contact them if you need directions.

Scary Story Night is TOMORROW!

Scary Story Night will be held tomorrow at Chandonn’s house. We will converge around 3 PM to share scary stories, and perhaps some videos as well.

Please bring a scary story to share with the group. This can either be a short story or poem you've always enjoyed, a spooky legend, a story you heard around a campfire, or a scary story you wrote yourself.

It is not mandatory, but drinks and treats for sharing are as welcome as the scary stories!

Please contact Chandonn if you need information about the location.

Pictures from Summerfest

The Spirit Mask workshop was led by Hypatia X.

Karen makes a very stylish swan!

Who is this masked woman?

Dragon, or Martian Scooby Doo?

AARGH!! What horrible masks! So lifelike!

Okay, time to knock over that 7-11!

We had a great time at Summerfest.

If you missed it this year, hope you can make it next time!

Sophia X. Pharou

Summary of Annual Meeting

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On June 24th, we had our annual meeting. At that meeting, the board was chosen and their offices were selected.

Presenting: This year's Board!

Chandonn - President
Hypatia X - Vice-President
Sophia X. Pharou - Secretary/Treasurer

As part of her duties, Sophia X. Pharou filed the paperwork with the State Treasurer's office and paid the annual fee of $4.00.

No new business was proposed at the meeting.

Our next meeting will be this Saturday, July 8th, at 6 PM. We will be creating the blessing stones we'd planned to do at Summerfest; we had so many other activities, we ran out of time! For more information or directions, please contact Rev. Chandonn.

Personal Mythology

Personal Mythology explains how we put our experiences into mental and emotional order. Rather than our lives being a set of disjointed events, we tend to form an internal narrative, a storyline, to explain the things that happen. We look for cause and effect in our world. We also tend to have internal scripts, notions of how we’re supposed to act, how others are supposed to respond. The people around us play roles, as do we, and our fates respond accordingly.

A guiding myth tells its recipient, the hero, what sort of person he is and what type of story he is living in. Sometimes the myth is helpful, lending courage and willpower when the hero needs it the most, providing a moral code to live by, and giving him a lofty goal to pursue. Unfortunately, it can also limit the hero from looking at alternative ways to solve his problems, or prevent him from seeing that he has outgrown the book he’s in and needs to move on to a text of a higher grade level.

How do we identify a guiding myth? More specifically, how do we identify the myths that guide our own lives? The human potential movement has provided us with a wealth of personality inventories and archetype catalogs to help us determine the sort of people we are. Jean Shinoda Bolen explains how Greek mythological figures demonstrate different patterns of human mindset and behavior, and how they play out in our lives. Carol Pearson provides a group of human archetypes, the stories they live out, and a way of measuring which archetypes hold the most sway over our natures. There are several temperament sorters, such as the Myers-Briggs system, the ennead system, and Barbara Bowers’ ‘aura colors’.

We can use these methods to identify the qualities of our own nature, but we must go further. The hero has a story; we must identify our own stories by studying the context of our lives. Once we know the plotline our life has been following, we can decide for ourselves how it ends, or if it is time to go ‘off script’ and find a new role.

Works that can help you identify and work with your personal story include: Your Mythic Journey by Sam Keen and Anne Valley-Fox, The Mythic Path by David Feinstein and Stanley Krippner, and Path of the Everyday Hero: Drawing on the Power of Myth to Meet Life's Most Important Challenges by Lorna Catford and Michael Ray.

The above was part of my Summerfest presentation this year. The exercises we did afterwards were within the context of the themes of the celebration.

Addendum: Another useful text I omitted earlier is Sacred Contracts: Awakening Your Divine Potential by Caroline Myss. The book is a bit schizophrenic - the first part deals with examples of 'sacred contracts' with the Divine drawn from Christianity, Judaism, Islam, and Buddhism, while the second part deals with personal archetypes and their function in your daily life. I suspect Sacred Contracts began as two books and got merged into one for the sake of the booksellers. Huge tomes that sell for $20-30 are all the rage these days.-SEG

Summerfest!

Summerfest will be held June 24, 2006, at Chandonn and Jordsvin's new home. Expect to see the Lap Chicken in the house, and a starter orchard in the back yard.

The celebration will begin around 'noonish', according to Rev. Chandonn. His house can be more easily spotted these days: it has a flying pig flag near the front door. For more specific directions, please contact Rev. Chandonn directly.

The events scheduled so far:

Main Ritual:

“The Spirit Guide Dance”
by Guide Chandonn

Workshops:

Spirit Guide Mask-making
by Guide Hypatia X

Spirit Guide Meditation
by Guide Chandonn

Personal Mythology discussion
by Guide Sophia X Pharou

Making Blessing Stones for Chandonn’s and Karen’s households

Blessed be,

Sophia X. Pharou

So, What Color is YOUR Aura?

I've found this to be one of the more interesting surveys. The quiz takes about 10-15 minutes and the answers are detailed. So far, we seem to be leaning to the purplish end of the color scale. I'm a Violet, HypatiaX is a Lavender, and our resident Gemini, Karen, is a Magenta and a Lavender.

Sarah G

Your Aura Colour is Violet.

Violets are the visionaries and the leaders of the spectrum. They are spiritual, driven, motivated, dedicated, responsible, charismatic big-picture-types. They can also be curmudgeons.

Find out what colour your aura is.