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*bounce* Wendy Rule is in town in 4 weeks and two days! I must find out what I have on that weekend. Here is the relevant extract from the website (reformatted, and semi-un-typo'd):
November 12 McLaren Vale ( SA) Concert
Solo concert in the beautiful "Singing Gallery" in McLaren Vale, close to Adelaide
Address and other details avail. ASAP
Also performing is local singer songwriter Billy February
November 13 Adelaide Concert
The Grace Emily Hotel, Adelaide
Solo concert.
With special guest Billy February
More Details ASAP
November 14 ADELAIDE WITCHCRAFT WORKSHOP
Monday November 14th
3 hour Workshop on Magic, Nature and Witchcraft.
Suitable for beginners or advanced -a fresh approach to an old tradition.
The Governor Hindmarsh Hotel, Thebarton
$15
7.30 -10.30 pm
Anyone else planning on going?
November 12 McLaren Vale ( SA) Concert
Solo concert in the beautiful "Singing Gallery" in McLaren Vale, close to Adelaide
Address and other details avail. ASAP
Also performing is local singer songwriter Billy February
November 13 Adelaide Concert
The Grace Emily Hotel, Adelaide
Solo concert.
With special guest Billy February
More Details ASAP
November 14 ADELAIDE WITCHCRAFT WORKSHOP
Monday November 14th
3 hour Workshop on Magic, Nature and Witchcraft.
Suitable for beginners or advanced -a fresh approach to an old tradition.
The Governor Hindmarsh Hotel, Thebarton
$15
7.30 -10.30 pm
Anyone else planning on going?
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yay! wendy's back
Now all I need to do is find someone going to McLaren vale that I can get a lift with (with appropriate contributions of chocolates and petrol money).
It doesn't sound like the Parallel Dream (ie Rachel and Craig) will be there though. <sigh>
Although I keep wondering why I never get any of her emails .... actually I have my suspicions why not...
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I didn't get to see Wendy Rule last time she was in the area. *bounce* *bounce*
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paying for religion isn't right.
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The bits of Wendy Rule that make me twitch are all to do with her particular brand of paganism. Just incompatibility of outlook, the same way Christians can make me twitch, when they're talking about it. But the music gets me, which is why I have bits of 'Continental Isolation' running through my head, even though
"Whether it's winter or summer in June,
We all draw our power from the same moon."
just doesn't hold true.
Well, if I get something out of it, it's worth it to me. Even if the biggest thing is the networking, if I get contact(s) out of it, it's still well worth $5 an hour.
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Also, a lot of the wince-worthy paganism, for me, is measurable by the sheer amount of work it takes to keep up whatever it is the speaker is talking about. Thus, the fluffy-pagan daily ritual complete with robes, self-baked sacrificial cakes, and self-written poetry, causes me to wince. It's just too much like hard work. That much work should be reserved for special occasions.
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I've only seen her once, and my general impression was, "Give the woman a deprogrammaing course to take away the pretentious Fluffy Mayonnaise Paganism(TM) and I'd be a lot more approving of her!"
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I have a dear friend abroad who's a gently-dead-serious non-fluffy pagan (and teacher of Wicca). She manages to lead a very busy life without the least hint of pretentiousness or black eyeliner!
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And now I have a different ear-worm. Thankyou brain.
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i've had an ideological difference with many of the pay-a-pagans around town for many years now. one of the reasons i don't go to pagan alliance any more. they have no bullshit filters.
who are you hoping to connect with? (i be a curious type :)
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But I like her for her music, especially the earlier pieces, which were far less bitter and much more fun. This is why I think it's a shame that Craig and Rachel aren't along as well. <sigh>
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i like my rituals to have meaning. to me. audiences are not required. (often not desired, either :)
i wince not only at the over-the-top-pagans™, but also the we're-recreating-a-dead-religion-the-way-we-want-it-to-have-been™ types. [mutters something about 'meaning' ...]
oh, and then there's those ethics things ...
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[1] This is reflective of my opinion of the speaker as presented by her stalwart champions. The reality may have been different, but I really doubt it.
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it's the attitude that gets me as much as anything else. [i mean seriously, screwing some semi-random person doesn't make anyone 'lord' or 'lady' of anything - it might constitute prostitution however ...]
and the whole "we're against any form of heirarchy or organisation - except that imposed upon us by lady what's-her-face, or lord couldn't-get-laid-otherwise ... but you just know it must be the real thing if it's all secret-like ... aarrgghh!
our community was torn-apart for a while by this kind of pay-a-pagans who were more interested in power games than learning anything, playing at rituals than doing anything meaningful.
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the melbourne socialite scene is a real killer if you don't play at their game though.
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but her books portray a pretty commerical form of witchery.
re [1] ... i concur.
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And I don't mean that in the 16th century use of the term where St Georges' cathedral was described as "pompous, artifical, and awful" either. [full of pomp, a great artifact, and awe inspiring]
(She's very Inanna-centered without having studied any of it. Roughly equivalent to an enlightened 70's radical feminist in outlook.) Apologies to anyone I just tarred with the same brush.
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Which is why I'm sad that Rachel and Craig won't be there as well. No cello or piano. <sigh>
The Melbourne Goth and Pagan scenes used to be closely entwined, which is half the problem. As well as being vindictive and downright snarky at times. Then again, that's probably true of the scenes in most major cities.
See. I can be snarky too!
<grin>
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Odds are good that I can be plied with goods and/or services in lieu of lifting. But I have a small car and can only fit so many, (myself, front seat passenger, and three small or two large in the back, or for an unlucky small person, two small and one large, in the back).
I'd love to go. I hope she takes some of her CDs with her for us to purhase. My last purchase was WOrld Between Worlds.
The things I like most about non-fluffy pagans is that you can't pick them. If you can pick a pagan, then I feel they are in the fluffy basket :)
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I rekn
I rekn I know you. I rekn I've met you. I rekn you live with someone who's name starts with M, in a house occasionally haunted by JW, due to living relatives of M.
Am I right?
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I'm guessing this would annoy me the same way Christians who quote the bible without actually having read it annoy me. Do your research, people!
But, as with most people, as long as I don't get the speaker started on whatever it is that annoys me, it's all good.
For example, I never mention gayness around my Pentecostal mother. What I think of most politicians around my politically biased friends. Damn near anything around the King of Australia unless I'm in a poke-poke mood.